Encounter at Wendelshaus ....

At a small hamlet of Wendelshaus near Ziegenfeldt, a Saxe-Jarlsberg dragoon patrol falls back after running into a detachment of Wittenberg jagers ....

The movements:

Wittenberg: General Waldebeck had marched his troops hard, left the main road and moved towards the centre of the Hoflandt aiming for Ziegenfeldt.

Saxe-Jarlsberg: Count Pottsendorf had secured Montberg and ensured supplies were brought up, this caused some delay; not finding the Wittenberg troops on the road to Marienstadt he had swung the army north.

On the march ....

The Wittenberg army has left Vanderhof and is now marching towards Marienstadt, a mounted jager arrives and updates General Waldebeck with the latest postion of the enemy forces...

 Saxe-Jarlsberg troops are to the north of Montberg ..

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A map of the campaign area in the Hoflandt showing the principle towns/cities and the routes of march of the opposing forces..

Wittenberg troops leave Vanderhof

As the troops spill out of Vanderhof, Colonel Waldeback and staff ride forward to organise the column of march..

[Figs: from my 40mm collection, mostly home casts from Creartec moulds, with some Front Rank and Irregular Miniatures]

Trouble on the South-West Frontier

Saxe-Jarlsberg hussars cross the border into the Hofland at Karlebach, the rest of the army is not far behind

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Their movements have not gone un-noticed, at General Waldebeck's headquarters in Vanderhof .....

Urgent despatch for General Waldebeck

General Waldebeck: Well gentlemen the Saxe-Jarlsberg forces have crossed

the border; assemble the army - we march tommorrow morning.

View Halloo ...

Count Pottsendorf, the Saxe-Jarlsberg commander, takes a break from organising his upcoming campaign and goes hunting - the fox is sighted ...

[I bought a couple more hounds from an O Gauge model railway accessory range to add to my pack of hounds - they fit in well with my 40mm figures]