SNC078-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Some paint issues/chips.
Del Prado SNC078 Trooper, Austrian Jagers, 1800
In 1789, following the storming of the Bastille, the French king, Louis XVI, and his Queen, Marie Antoinette (a daughter of the late Empress Maria Theresa of Austria), were held by the revolutionaries. There were already grounds for war between republican France and the Austrian Habsburgs. Marie Antoinette sent messages to her brother, the Austrian Emperor Leopold, pleading that he deal with the French Revolution by armed force, and in August 1791 Leopold, together with the King of Prussia, issued a joint declaration warning France of the consequences of any maltreatment of its monarch. Leopold had reason, too, to complain of French encouragement to the rebels in the Austrian Netherlands (modern Belgium). On his sudden death on 1 March 1792, the challenge was immediately taken up by his son and successor Francis I.