My Monmouth Courthouse 1778 Crown Forces

From Osprey Campaign 135 Monmouth Courthouse 1778 (Osprey Publishing, Oxford, 2004 pg 82-84)

For those who note descripencies, I have only listed the figures of units I have painted.
June 28, 1778

Artillery:
4th Battalion Royal Artillery
Hesse Kasel Artillery
2nd Battalion, New Jersey Volunteers.

First Division:

1st Light Infantry, made up of Light Infantry companies of 4th/5th/10th/15th/17th/22nd/23rd/27th/28th/33rd/35th/38th/42nd

Composite battalions of Grenadiers, made up of the above regiments.

Hessian Grenadiers, made up from companies from Linsing, Lengerke, Minnigerode

3rd Brigade:
15th/17th/42nd and 44th Foot

4th Brigade:
33rd/46th/64th Foot

5th Brigade:
7th/26th/63rd Foot.

Second Division:

2nd Light Infantry, made up of the companies of 40th/43rd/44th/45th/46th/49th/52nd/54th/63rd/64th/1st and 2nd Battalions, 71st Highlanders.

Composite battalions of Grenadiers, made up of the above regiments.

17th Light Dragoons
40th Foot

Jager Korps
Hesse-Kassel Jager (foot) Hesse-Kassel (mtd) Anspach-Bayreuth Chasseurs

1st Brigade:
4th/23rd/28th/49th

2nd Brigade:
5th/10th/27th/55th

Hessian Brigade:
Regiment Von Knyphausen
von Woellworth

Loyalists Corps
Philadelphia Light Dragoons
Maryland Loyalists
New Jersey Volunteers

Battle of Barren Hill May 20, 1778

This battle was a part of the Monmouth campaign in New Jersey in the early summer of 1778. Howe was attempting to take his British army back to New York with Loyalists. The Americans attempted to try and destroy the British army.
Barren Hill was Howe's last chance to defeat the American army, and threw almost his entire force against the position.

The American forces consisted of 4 brigades under the command of Lafayate, his first battlefield command.

Photos of upcoming battle will be posted in the near future

 

 

The British troops consisted of:

Grey's Brigade: 15th Foot/17th Foot/42nd Foot, Black Watch:two battalions/44th Foot

Grant's Brigade: 5th Foot/23rd Foot/28th Foot/49th Foot/5th Foot/10th Foot/27th Foot/55th Foot

Howe/Clinton: Hessians, Loyalists, Grenadiers, Light Infantry

 

 

 

 

This battle is to be refought on March 28, 2013 as a farewell party with my co-worker whose off to his first solo teaching position. 

Howe and Clinton's column: The Grenadiers with 23rd Regiment, Light Infantry and Hessians. During the game, this section was fought over very hard. The Grenadiers took heavy casualties. The Light Infantry were destroyed by the American Riflemen.

Grey's column: 15th/17th/42nd X 2/33rd/37th/46th/64th. This column then deployed into line to attack....

Poor's Militia Brigade of 1st New Jersey Militia. This battalion suffered greatly from concentrated artillery fire.

McLean's pickets of Rifles, and Light Infantry and Oneida warriors. This small unit put up a hard fight and only disperesed after they had taken heavy casualties. 

Grant's column deploy into line with RA gun support 4th/28th/49th/5th/10th/27th/55th. This strong unit opened up with artillery fire to soften up the militia, then advanced calmly up the slope.

Potter's militia brigade: 2nd Militia battalion from New Jersey. This unit was pounded by the RA and broke when the British got within volley range.

Poor's main Continental line regiments holding the village on the ridge. 1NH/2NH/3NH/2NY/4thNY. These units attempted to hold but on seeing the militia break and cut down, they too lost heart and ran to.....

Poor deploys a gun with a militia battalion to guard Matson's Ford. The British objective of the game was to try and encircle the Americans with a Pincer movement. Unfortuantely for the British, the American rifles and lights destroyed the 17th Light Dragoons who were to have rushed ahead with gun support to take the bridge.

All in all, it was an interesting battle. Mr. Coombs took the American army while I had the British. His experience playing D&D helped with his gaming.

 

 

 

 

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The Monmouth game from the American side

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More Americans

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The American awaits the British attack

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The New York, New Jersey contingents advance towards the British

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The American army advances

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The American army Left Wing

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Monmouth Courthouse Battlefield looking from the British position towards the Americans. The windmill is another 100 yen shop special.

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The American horse. The house are templates from www.juniorgeneral.org and the ruined house is from a 100 yen shop here in Japan. The stone wall is actually the chimmney from the tavern template from the wizards of the coast website.

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The British Right wing advances. The figures are a mix of IMEX, HaT, Italeri, and A Call to Arms. The flags are from www.warflag.com

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The British line advances. My little boy insisted on putting his pike and shot figures in the game, they did better than the British infantry and Highlanders to their front.

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The British horse advance on the Americans

Battle of Monmouth June 28, 1778

This was the largest battle in the Northern area during the American Revolution. 11,000 American troops attempted to destroy 10,000 British troops. It was General Lee's downfall and Washington was able to save his army from another defeat.

The Refight with miniatures 12/27/11

Crown Forces                                      Continental Army

First Division: Gen. Cornwallis                       Gen. Lee

Royal Artillery                                    Continental Artillery    

16^th Lt. Dragoons                                 Col. Grayson’s Det

1^st Light Infantry                                  4^th/8^th/12^th Virginia

Queens Rangers                                 Col. Durkee’s Det

                                                4^th/8^th Connecticut

British Grenadiers                                1^st/2^nd/ Rhode Island

1^st Grenadiers                                   Gen Maxwell

2^nd Grenadiers                                   1^st New Jersey

                                                3^rd New Jersey

Foot Guards                                     Monmouth Militia

3^rd Bde.                                         Poor’s Bde

15^th/17^th/42^nd/44^th                                1^st New Hampshire

4^th Bde.                                         3^rd New Hampshire

33^rd/37^th/46^th/64^th/                                2^nd New York

5^th Bde.                                         Huntington Bde.

7^th/26^th/63^rd/                                     2^nd/5^th Connecticut

                                                Smallwood Bde.

Second Division Gen. von Knyphausen             3^rd Maryland

Flank Guards                                    2^nd Maryland

17^th Lt. Dragoons/2^nd Lt. Inf/ 40^th                    6^th Maryland

                                                Parkers Bde

Jagers                                         1^st/5^th/9^th Virginia

1^st Bde.                                         Lord Stirling Bde

4^th/23^rd/28^th/49^th/                                 1^st Pennsylvania

2^nd Bde.                                       2^nd Pennsylvania

5^th/10^th/27^th/55^{th                                                7th} Pennsylvania

Hessian Bde.                                  Butler’s Bde

Loyalist Corps                                 4^th Pennsylvania

Maryland Loyalists                             5^th Pennsylvania

New Jersey Volunteers                         11^th Pennsylvania

                                             1^st New York

                                             Glover’s Bde

                                             1^st/4^th/10^th Massachusetts

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Santa was generous to us this year, on the wargamming front. IMEX The Battle of Monmouth Courthouse set. 200 British and American troops plus the Jacobite Highlanders and English civil war figures which my son wanted made quite an impressive apprearance on the kitchen table. Other figures which I painted were Italeri Napoleonic British Hussars as Queen's Rangers Hussars,

The landscaping effects come from www.juniorgeneral.org as well as a link to Wizards of the Coast for templates for buildings. I believe the cabin came from a link via http://flintlockandtomahawk.blogspot.com