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Am sure Susannah would put up a fight if she felt a strong attachment to Mr Harper... :eek:
Not saying she'd win, by any means...but she wouldn't surrender lightly either... :D

I think for the purposes of this tale, Isabella should remain a distant personage...perhaps she and Susannah can 'duke it out' over Patrick in another story... ;)
 
Then again Harper could be smart and work out a time share programme , Sundays the women can share......lol

I think Isabella shall be background in Ireland and of course with the share number of women following the army and the habit of men to die in battle, life long relationships were ....ah fluid sometiimes.
 
Speaking purely on Kate's behalf I'd say that our Ms Savage would like to give Jane a clop around the ear to teach her some manners.
 
Just to be keeping Susannah occupied whilst the action's taking place...just wondering if wounded would be being brought back to camp yet...?
She can be doing some nursing while the fighting's going on on the hill... :eek:
Just a suggestion...
 
It surely won't be long now that the meat grinder has started turning.

And initial casualties will be the highest.
 
A few technical questions.

Justine has ordered canister to be loaded. That would take care of the horsemen, She has time for one round of artillery being fired before the Spaniards and Brits are on her. Thus hand to hand fighting. The French are fortified behind their redoubts and can therefor count on at least partial protection from enemy bullets.

Any estimates on the casualties?

As for Susannah and Kate I'd say that they are doing the Nightingale thing, rolling bandages and boiling water with battalion...

(No I'm not going schizo trying to be both the Angel of Mercy and the Psychotic French Angel of Cheese and Death here)
 
Okey dokey...will get Susannah up to her elbows in blood and bandages... ;)
And I'm assuming they'll be mainly gunshot wounds and injuries from cannon fire to begin with...rather than hand to hand combat type stuffs...
 
Dearest Brit...

Would you write in Kate's engagment in the blood and elbows as well...The poor thing will probably be most shaken by the horrors going on...

LM
 
Lady_Mornington said:
Dearest Brit...

Would you write in Kate's engagment in the blood and elbows as well...The poor thing will probably be most shaken by the horrors going on...

LM
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Milady,
I shall do...I agree that her delicate nature might not be able to deal with all of it but that she'll try, admirably... :eek:
Working on it now...
Brit
 
About estimates, I would need to know numbers to calculate, and what guns the French have in the manner of artillery.
 
I'd say that the French have three fourpounder guns armed with canister rather than roundshot.

As for the battalion...let's say she's got 426 men under her command. Grenadier guards and unhorsed dragoons

Would that do?
 
I am not familiar with the canister ammunition. What does it do?

Steiner, what are the estimates of Sharpe's current number of troops?



Ah, crap, gotta go for a while. I'll see how soon I can post. Until then, dibs on the cannons! ^^
 
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Katamari

We always care about your posts you ought to know that by now :)

Canister is basically a tin-can containing multiple musketballs. When fired it spreads out and can take out a score of horsemen or advancing infantry.
 
Ok, a Florence Nightingale-esque post is up from Susannah...let me know if you want more from Kate in there... :eek:
 
And a very good post it is as well.. :)

We'll let Kate sit and be delicate for the moment...I think Susannah will an alltogether better nurse than she.
 
The guns are now less useful. Justine has one shot, I would estimate before Cavalry and Infantry are upon her. At this point I wouldn't think that three cannisters will achieve decisive results against Six companies of Infantry (The South Essex was 10 companies originally, I think. Some casualties from this fight plus the usual wastage, puts them down at six companies) spread out in line. They would hurt the cavalry more - if they hit - but charging Cavalry is quite a fast thing to hit.

As hero figures, the riflemen, Sharpe, Harper and the Spanish CO are all off limits for being taken out by artillery. :)

The British will get into the redoubts. No doubt at all. Sharpe has absolutely never been beaten at this. But at other points in the wall, the South Essex will not do so well.

I see a situation where the Cavalry roll around the defences and away up the hill. Sharpe punches through into the redoubts with a couple of companies, is joined by the Riflemen and the rest of the South Essex retreats down the hill.

Two roughly equal sized forces of Infantry wind up holding two halves of the redoubt. Lots of close in shooting and shouting and kicking and stamping to go before one or the other wins.

Will Justine capture Sharpe and kill the rest of the South Essex from the redoubt, or will he wear her down when the rest of his regiment reforms and returns?
 
I think that if Justine is going to be captured it will be by Alfonso...there's a bit of ill feelings between the two at least as far as I understand it.

Justine will understand that the battle is lost and she and her dragoons will make a fighting withdrawal, leaving a few companies to hold the redoubts as the main French force reforms on the crest.
 
I see...



I think the cavalry would get to the redoubts at least one minute before the infantry (what with being faster). And I do think that, with three huge over-powered shotguns, I would lose up to thirty men between dead and wounded (and the horses would be way worse).

Also, for the record, I am going straight for the guns. Three-men-deep lets me have some cannon fodder in front, without impairing the other men's riding (who can dodge the falling ones).
 
Lady_Mornington said:
And a very good post it is as well.. :)

We'll let Kate sit and be delicate for the moment...I think Susannah will an alltogether better nurse than she.
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...*bows head humbly*...
I try :eek:
 
Katamari: The hussars are going to hava field day with the artillerists a good a way as any to vent any frustrations.

Brit: And succeeds as well...
 
You're too kind, milady :eek:
Well, sadly, I have to head to my bed now or I'll be useless at work tomorrow... ;)
Will check up in the morning to see how things have progressed... :D
 
No problem with having Alfonso reach the redoubt first, Katamari. I was trying to imagine how far up the hill the South Essex had gotten when the Hussars made their charge.

So long as Justine withdraws from the redoubt I have no issue with her being Alfonso's collar. If she stays in that redoubt then she, along with all her men, are Richard's prey.

And I was just going to add that I enjoyed Brit's post as well! :)
 
Whew! What a post!

Reading Captain Alatriste (Sandwing) before this post seems to have been a good idea, although it seems I went a bit overboard in the poetic patriotism department... ^^
 
Katamari

Are you sure you haven't read Cornwell? I enjoyed it and it adds to the story with a bit of old-fashioned patriotism.
 
I haven't read Cornwell. But I'll be damned if El Capitán Alatrise doesn't have enough patriotism in it! ^^

The story is about a boy working for a sword for hire in the Madrid of the seventeenth century, when Spain was still a great empire in Europe. The boy often reflects on how while Spain is a proud lion of a country, with men very intolerant towards insults, it is wounded badly by the corruption of the nobles, the general laziness of most, and how only the Spanish Tercios (the squares of soldiers) kept Spain safe fighting against all odds and winning again and again 'till the battle of Rocroi.
 
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