Pike & Shotte Epic Battles - Battle of Breitenfeld Thirty Years' War Collection bundle-product Under the Chef de Musique

Under the Chef de Musique (Bandmaster) the Tambour Major (Drum Major) led the Drums and the Band

3 with spears and shields and 1 with a pistol and a shield

When war came in 1861 he promptly rejoined offering his services to the cause of Union

Black Powder Epic Battles: Waterloo is here

In an exception to the convention of the time of the Crimean War that a British infantry regiment would consist of only a single battalion

Pike & Shotte Epic Battles - Battle of Breitenfeld Thirty Years' War Collection bundle-product Under the Chef de MusiqueThe Battle of Breitenfeld (September 17, 1631), in which the Swedish Saxon army of King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden defeated and destroyed the imperial army of Ferdinand II (commanded by Count Tilly), was the first major Protestant victory of the Thirty Years' War. The battle demonstrated that Swedish tactics could triumph over the increasingly dated massive infantry formations that had dominated European warfare for decades prior, and earned Adolphus