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John Jenkins April 2023 Releases

Welcome to the April 2023 announcements.

For this set of announcements, we have a new Longship, American Revolution, American Civil War and lots of other goodies.

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We hope you enjoy them!

Mike & Myszka and all at the Sierra Toy Soldier Company

Longship

When Magnus the Good (1047) put his ships to sea, it was as if a swarm of angels from the King of heaven - soared over the waves. (The skald Arnorr)

PLEASE NOTE LONGSHIP2 IS THE SAME AS THE FIRST LONGSHIP EXCEPT THE SAIL IS BLACK AND WHITE INSTEAD OF RED AND WHITE.

For a complete description please click on the Longship link

LONGSHIP-002 Viking Dragon (DREKI) (Black and White Sail)

Age of Arthur - Vikings

Saxons

Age of Arthur - Anglo Saxon/ Danish Shieldwall

Trojan War - Troy

Aeneas is a character in the Iliad, where he is twice saved from death by the gods for an as yet unknown destiny, but is an honorable warrior in his own right. He is the leader of the Trojan's Dardanian allies, as well as a second cousin and principal lieutenant of Hector, son and heir of the Trojan King Priam.

Having held back from the fighting, aggrieved with Priam because in spite of his brave deeds he was not given his due share of honour, he leads an attack against Idomeneus to recover the body of his brother-in-law Alcathous at the urging of Deiphobus.

The Aeneid explains that Aeneas is one of the few Trojans who were not killed or enslaved when Troy fell. Aeneas, after being commanded by the gods to flee, gathered a group, collectively known as the Aeneads, who then travelled to Italy, and became progenitors of the Romans. The Aeneads included Aeneas's trumpeter Misenus, his father Anchises, his friends Achates, Sergestus and Acmon, the healer Lapyx, the helmsman Palinurus and his son Ascanius. They carried with them the Lares and Penates , the statues of the household gods of Troy, and transplanted them to Italy.

TWT-007 Aeneas

Troy and her allies

Battle of Cowpens - Third Continental Dragoons

One of Brigadier General Daniel Morgan's greatest concerns was his lack of adequate numbers of dragoons. Dragoons served both sides as scouts, mounted pickets, mobile reserves, and shock troops. One of their primary functions was to exploit a victory by riding down the remnants of broken enemy infantry. Weapons included a carbine and a brace of heavy pistols, Although according to Colonel William Washington the "only necessary weapon a dragoon carries" was the sabre.

Several small volunteer militia contingents were hastily equipped as dragoons to reinforce the cavalry, as it was well known the strength of Tarleton's mounted legion.

CW3LD-005 Third Continental Dragoons

Third Continental Dragoons

American Civil War - Emerald Guard

Army of the Shenandoah, 33rd Virginia Infantry Regiment, Company E, Emerald Guard

ACW - 5th U.S. Artillery

Charles Griffin (December 18th, 1825 -Septemeber 15th 1867) was a career officer in the United States Army and became an Union general during the American Civil War. He rose to command a corps in the Army of The Potomac and fought in many of the key campaigns in the Eastern Theatre.

In 1849 as a first Lieutenant, he was to serve in the New Mexico Territory against Navajo Indians until 1854. He then left the southwest frontier and taught artillery tactics at West Point.

He was to form an artillery battery from the academy's enlisted men shortly after the southern states began seceding from the Union.

Captain Griffin led the "West Point Battery", (officially designated as Battery D, 5th US Artillery) at the First Battle of Bull Run in July 1861.

The southern cause was helped by a case of mistaken identity. Colonel Arthur C. Cummings's 33rd Virginia Regiment wore blue uniforms. The Colonel afraid his men would break and run if they were held in their position any longer, ordered them to advance towards the guns of Ricketts and Griffin.

Griffin saw them coming and swung two of his guns round and had them loaded with cannister. Just as he was about to fire, his superior officer, Major William F. Barry, shouted , "Captain, don't fire there; those are your battery support." "They are Confederates" Griffin shouted back, as certain as the world, they are Confederates." But Barry insisted, and the guns were swung back to their original line of fire. The Virginians, meanwhile marched ever closer, halted and fired a volley. Griffin told a subsequent Board of Inquiry, "was the last of us, We were all cut down." Most of the horses and many of the gunners were killed. Ricketts was severely wounded. Griffin struggled to save what he could, but Cummings and his Virginians were among them quickly to capture the guns and much ammunition.

US5ART-001 Captain Charles Griffin

5th U.S. Artillery

Battle of Assaye, 1803 - Maratha Cavalry

M-WIN-011 Bargir Standard Bearer

Maratha Cavalry

Battle of Assaye - 74th Highland Regiment of Foot

74th Highland Regiment of Foot

Mountain Men

WSP-060 Mountain Man with Pack Mule

Whiskey, Scalps and Beaver Pelts

Knights Of The Skies

PLEASE NOTE THIS MODEL, ACE-29 IS A SMALL PRODUCTION RUN MADE AT THE SAME TIME AS THE ACE-27. THEREFORE IT HAS THE SAME MATERIALS SUCH AS THE CLEAR RIGGING WIRE WHICH WAS ORIGINALLY USED ON THE ACE-27.