The INSPECTION

The below photographs are of Hessian infantrymen of the American War of Independence. To be more precise, they are grenadiers of Orberst Von Rall’s Regiment who met their demise at the hands of Washington’s men at the Battle of Trenton in December 1776. These models are from the Perry miniatures’ range and are in the collection of Dave Thomas. In front of a loyalist-owned or ‘Tory’ house they are going through their drill in front of the intimidating glare of their officers and NCO’s   These figures look like what they are meant to represent from the historical period; tough, disciplined regular soldiers, transported hundreds of miles from their native European homes to fight in an alien landscape, facing the contempt of the American rebel population.