RP No 114 Jacobite MacGillicuddy's foot regt

The twelfth and  last of my Irish Jacobite foot regiments (for now, he says??) For the Battle of the Boyne and for Aughrim. I wasn't quite sure what regt to paint up for my last foot regt, so I made up several different flags for different regiments but finally chose MacGillicuddy's foot, for no particular reason other than the great sounding name. I've not seen any other wargamer paint this unit up, so thought it would be a good addition the my army.

As per usual trying to find any info on the unit proved very difficult, but their Commander Denis MacGillicuddy was killed during  the Battle of Aughrim in 1691.

MacGillicuddy's were entered into the Analouge Painting Challange and earned me 40 points, I'm currently in  10th place, although my highest position so far was 7th. There are still 56 days to go in the Challenge but I'm gonna struggle making the top 10 let alone the planned top 5. Oh well?

Gerpines Uniform Colour List 1691

As some of my followers may already know, I've been painting up a 15mm English/Allied army for the Nine Years War, a couple of weeks ago I found the Gerpines list on the Anno Domini 1672 blog, Link, which looks like a photocopy from an old book. So me be the anal nerd I am decided to try and make the list a little more user friendly and I though t I'd share it with you all.
I've colour coded the list for ease, the original layout of the list is in order of how the regiments stood in line on parade, I've changed my list so that all the regiments are in order of their country of origin. You may notice a few question marks, unfortunatly I either couldn't read or guess some of the letters in the original list, so if any of you clever people out there, know what's missing, please let me know and I'll correct the list.

Nine Years War Paintings

While seaching the web for info on the uniforms of officers during the Nine Years War, I found several paintings, so I thought I'd share them.


Siege of Namur 1692 by Martin Jean-Baptiste le Viex



Siege of Namur 1695 Jan van Huctenburg



Combat de Leuze by Joseph Parrocel

William III Landing at Brixham, Torbay 1688, unknown artist

 The arrival of King-Stadholder Willem III in the Oranjepolder, 31 January 1691 by Ludolf Bakhiizen