SNC095-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Some paint chips.
Del Prado SNC095 Trumpeter, French Carabiniers, 1810-1813
Following the rupture of the Peace of Amiens on 16 May 1803, Napoleon then still First Consul had gathered his army near the English Channel intending to invade England. The Carabiniers, mounted on superb black horses, were part of this army when the events of autumn 1805 sent them racing eastwards.
The Third Coalition against France was formed in April 1805 by Austria, Russia, Sweden and some minor German states. Before it could mount active operations, however, Napoleon forestalled it. He began marching his troops out of the camps on the Channel coast on 31 August. Ignorant of Napoleons movements, the Austrians invaded Bavaria on 2 September, at the same time General Kutuzovs Russians began to move westwards in support. Napoleons stunningly rapid advance eastwards to meet them reached the Rhine on 26 September, and the Danube on 6 October.