... An excellent site, Henry. I liked the battle accounts, and sympathise with you over the indifferent ending of the Palookaville action. Some games seem...
Hello all, apologies for not being around much! Just to let you all know that I've updated the website a little. Also, the next "true 25mm Ral Partha" new...
on 01/10/05 9:11am, ColonialWars@yahoogroups.com at ... To be totally accurate the Guides never left the NWF, not even for WW1 and 2. But I'm sure they'd be...
on 01/10/05 9:11am, ColonialWars@yahoogroups.com at ... wow. Sounds like you're 95% of the way there already! The Indian cavalry certainly saw service in the...
SHAMELESS HEART RENDING APPEAL I¡¦m posting this everywhere I can think of. (I¡¦ve done it before on one site so :- No Time Wasters or Liars please.) I...
Hello everyone, I know someone will say this is off topic, but, it just has to be said, and in most ways it isnt, I just bought a Wollesly pattern pith helmet....
THIS IS AN AUTO-SEND MESSAGE. YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WRONG!! Greetings, ColonialWars strips off attachments. If you want to send & receive attachments,...
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Oct 2, 2005 3:27 am
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I just recently finished a game based on the Major General's "El Debi" idea. A great horde of appropriately fiendish indigenes swarms out of the desert intent...
By all means have them mentioned in dispataches. Such up and comming lads need some inspiration. If the prove themselves in further combat a gong or two...
I read the report of the two Officers' exploits with great interest. Both deserve recognition. Both certaily qualify for MID. The example shown by Maj...
The closest I can come to this story (since ACW is on topic) was that I bought a Confederate cavalry officer's frock from a local dealer. I sent it to an...
Dennis L. Bishop
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Oct 2, 2005 12:29 pm
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Baluchis are not an NWF tribe. They come from what today is Pakistan, and from an area nearer to Karachi than the Khyber. But, that's not to say the figs...
what's the verdict on dervish flags circa 1881-1885? one or two sided? and what was the summer uniform for egyptian officers? blue? white? white coat/blue...
on 02/10/05 7:54am, ColonialWars@yahoogroups.com at ... Maj Nicholas certainly showed a great deal of acumen in managing a difficult situation. I think a DSO...
Officers wore blue all year round even though white was issued. An influence
of the French appaerently. Paul ... From: hfabersham Date: 10/02/05 14:56:43 To:...
I knew someone had a similar story. Also, I think that was one of the biggest messages sent, the original post, and it might have effected the group and...
The truth is that Mahdist flags were ONE sided. Period. Allow me strongly to recommend the following. To quote directly from the ms of the new 2nd Edition of...
That would be my sense of things, but I don't profess to know the ins and outs of such things. Is a knighthood ever awarded for a single action? (I know that...
I think that means they have to be one sided. Hold on, are you questioning Featherstone? Featherstone? Hopefully not TS Allen ... Don Featherstone says they're...
By 'one sided' I take it to mean that the design was 'correct' on one side & 'reversed' on the other - like many parade banners today are correct only when...
... sided? An article, way back in WI or MW, had them as one sided, with photographs to prove it. George ... Flags of the World) doesn't say one way or the...
Thankyou all for the help and interesting comments about my reqeusts for help with uniforms of the Easter Rising.I have ordered one of the excelent Osprey...
There was an article in the Courier ages ago, when they had their Sudan theme year, about Mahdist flags. Someone went to a museum in Cairo and photographed...
Hey folks...Hallowe'en is almost upon us, and it's a time when my thought always turn to costuming....as in "what colonial costume can I wear this year??" I...
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