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Perry’s Napoleonic French Prepare to Fight in Egypt
January 18, 2016 by dracs
Perry Miniatures are currently working on a few new Napoleonic figures and have just shown off the upcoming miniatures for the French Fusiliers campaigning in Egypt.
Sculpted wearing Kleber ordinance uniforms, these were apparently a bit different from the normal French blue uniforms in that they sported a number of colours. However, the more standard blue uniforms were used beforehand in the Syrian campaign of 1799.
I would love to see how these look once fully painted up. Multi-coloured, they would definitely stand out from the more usual French armies. Not knowing much about the French Napoleonic armies in Egypt, I'd be interested in seeing more of these models from Perry.
Can you history buffs tell us more about this period of Napoleonic warfare?
"Multi-coloured, they would definitely stand out from the more usual French armies..."
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Very nice minis. Basically Napoleon after succeeding in putting down a royalist revolt and succeeding the Italian Campaign (his most well equipped troops were his cavalry who didn’t have horses) decided to go to Egypt for various reasons (Loot, Fame, Something to do, Be out of France because it’s Revolutionary France) and he went to Egypt. Napoleon defeated a few Egyptian army’s most famous was his battle in front of the Pyramids where the French defeated the Mamluks and basically got to go looting. Napoleon found the Rosetta Stone which translated the Hieroglyphs and then some stuff happened with the enemy and Napoleon decided to leave Egypt (not flee he could have stayed but he had accomplished his goals) but Napoleons fleet was destroyed by Nelson so he couldn’t retreat by sea meaning he had to make treaties with people but he ended up back in France pretty quickly. All up 30000 French Dead 15000 From fighting and 15000 from disease, Napoleon got glory and fame in France which had just finished executing up to 600 people a day including the guy in charge of executing people Maximilien de Robespierre so having glory and military skill really went a long way in a place that needed leaders. Napoleon eventually got himself elected Head Consul (by marching the military into the voting room) and crowned himself emperor, stuff happened, he fought the greatest battle (arguably) of his career (and he’s seen as on of the worlds best generals) at Austerlitz, then stuff, then Russia happened, then stuff, then Waterloo and then he died on a small island in the middle of nowhere
teeny bit of an oversimplification 😉 hehehe. Numerous reasons for the Egyptian campaign, one of them being the ongoing war in India between the British EIC and Tippu Sultan. Pie in the sky thinking but not only would the colonisation of Egypt grant France all of it’s cotton needs, additional grain, access to the Middle East and it’s markets but it could possibly grant them access to India. Never really materialised but with gold and glory acquired, the long term goals seemed increasingly impossible so Boney cut his losses and returned home a hero. The defeat of Tippu certainly quashed any notion of kicking the British out of India any time soon…
It was fun to be so relaxed about history compared to the normal way I have to write 🙂