Progress on Paining SYW units from the Battle of Minden 1759

  Like most of us I have more than one project underway.  This is my progress over the bank holiday and following weekend working on the British/German side of the Battle of Minden 1659.

Brunswick Behr (1 bn) & Imhoff (2 bns)

                                                           Hessian Leib Grenadier

Hanoverian Converged Grenadiers (1 bn) under Wersabe

Hessian Gilsa (1bn)  & Hessian Leibgarde zu Fuss (1 bn)

Progress so far

Not yet painted are in red

Main Army under Ferdinand of Brunswick

Seventh column under Lieutenant-General von Imhoff

Major-General von Einsiedel's Brigade Hessian Gilsa (1 bn) Hessian Prinz Wilhelm (1 bn) Hessian Leib Grenadier (1 bn) British Light Artillery Brigade (9 pieces) under Captain Foy Brunswicker II./Behr (1 bn)

Major-General von Behr's Brigade Hessian Leib-Regiment (1 bn) Brunswicker Imhoff (2 bns)

Eighth column: Left Wing under Lieutenant-General the Duke of Holstein

Lieutenant-General the Duke of Holstein's Brigade Hanoverian Hammerstein Cavalry (2 sqns) Hessian Leib Cavalry (2 sqns) Hessian Prinz Wilhem Erbprinz Cavalry (2 sqns) Prussian Holstein-Gottorp Dragoons (5 sqns)

Lieutenant-General von Urff's Brigade Hessian Miltitz Cavalry (2 sqns) Hessian Pruschenk Cavalry (2 sqns) Prussian Finckenstein Dragoons (4 sqns)

Wangenheim Corps between the village of Kutenhausen and the Weser

Cavalry Right Wing

Major-General Reden's Brigade Hessian Leib Dragoons (4 sqns) Hessian Prinz Friedrich Dragoons (4 sqns)

Major-General von Hanstein's Brigade Hanoverian Leib-Regiment Reuter (2 sqns) Major-General Grothausen's Brigade Hanoverian Reden Cavalry (2 sqns) Hanoverian Heise Cavalry (2 sqns) Hanoverian Hodenberg Cavalry (2 sqns) Hanoverian Grothaus Cavalry (2 sqns)

Prussian Ruesch Hussars (1)