From RayR - Haitian Revolution - Spanish Militia (95 points)

 

Its back to the Haitian Revolution once again for my next entry into the Challenge. Here we have two Companies of Morenos Infantry, Volunteers of Santo Domingo.

Once again there isn't much info on the troops

Although I did find this text online, it was originally in Spanish and has a rather outdated look into the unit, so please don't shoot me!

 

It explains the Spanish Militia was split into white-skinned companies and non-white-skinned companies.

"Entry into the endowment companies was prohibited to those who were not of Spanish descent and of white race, except for the Tambores who had to be people of colour. Although this rule prevailed for these regular troops, the recruit was very different in the militias, where it was allowed, rather forced, the entry of men of other races different from the white, maintaining the differentiation of the units separately according to the skin colour of the men who would have to register in her, without mixing them with each other, or at least between whites and those of other racial origins. Therefore, the same division that so markedly characterized colonial society was maintained in fact when raising and regulating the militias and classifying them into units of Whites, Browns, and Dark Haired. Another different question will be the participation of the Indians in the militias, an issue that is fairly regulated and taken care of by the military authorities in areas with or with a large population of said origin, an issue that was not the case in Santo Domingo."

The two Commanders and drummer are from Offensive Miniatures Spanish range, they're slightly smaller than the Militia figures, which are of course from Trent Miniatures. I did have to double base them, just to bring them up to eye level. I do have a standard bearer figure, which I may paint up later, I don't know if they carried a flag and what it would have looked like, so it'd be pure guess work.

But don't tell anyone.

There are 2 companies of 8 figures

and three Command figures., so a total of 19 figures.

So a total of 95 points

 

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Nice work on this project Ray, good to see it continuing to come along. I assume this is still for Donnybrook? If so, I would imagine that you have painted and collected enough for more than a few games by now? Anyway, that is another 95 points for your total. 

GregB