Tony Barton作品：第40步兵团在佛兰德斯，1794年 / Foot in Flanders

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1794, 40th Foot in Flanders
40th Foot 1794

This figure is part of my attempts to make a typical figure for each decade of the British Army’s history. This loopy idea , a dolly per decade, at least gives me something to focus on, and actually has proved so far to be quite a good stimulus to research.

The Revolutionary Wars ignited by the French Revolution found the army in a fairly decrepit state, with widespread corruption at every level ( 12 year old colonels and so on ). Some Regiments were in good order, some not , and despite some good battlefield performances, the campaigns fought in the 1790s were mostly disasters .
The 40th Foot ( 2nd Somerset, but the regional tag didn’t mean much ) were involved with many of them.
The regiment’s first deployment was split, with its battalion companies fighting in Flanders and Brittany, and its light-infantry flank companies deployed to the West Indies.In 1794 the centre companies went to Flanders to reinforce the Duke of York’s Army on the Franco-Flemish border.

1794 38th amp 55th Foot disembark_zpskecc7tsw.jpg