Honk Honk - watch out for the geese !

A battalion of irish mercenary troops on the march to Monrovia ...

Being inspected by Monrovian officiers ....

(Figs are Crusader French, uniform is the wild geese Infantry Regiment Lally)

Dire straits ?

Madamesoille de Givenchy and her aunt the Marquise of Zinzendorf have been taken under escort by the Monrovians ...(continued from here)

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The dragoons bring the captives to the interior police headquarters ...

The ladies protest their innocence, but the Intendant of police tells them they will be confined to a room while their coach and belongings are searched - they will be questioned tomorrow or the next day ...

Mademoiselle de Givenchy and her aunt settle into their quarters, sparsely decorated but well furnished ...

Meanwhile the grey rider is organising a rescue ...


to be continued ....

The Bird is in the Cage ...

While returning to Wittenberg via Monrovia, Mademoiselle De Givanchy and her aunt the Marquise of Zinzendorf have been detained by the monrovians, they are being taken to Bronstadt to be questioned by the commander of the monrovian border guard.

Their companion, the 'Grey Rider' who managed to escape watches their carriage, with an escort of monrovian dragoons, from the edge of a wood.

A view of Bronstadt a small town used as the headquarters of the monrovian border guard ...

The 'Grey Rider' waits to see where they are taken and slips off across the border to get some help.