Set Up for GdeB Game on Saturday

We are having another General de Brigade game this Saturday here at my house. There are four of us planning to participate. We will do the opening of Quatre Bras. A French corps of one cavalry and two infantry divisions will go up against Picton's 5th Division and a division of Dutch/Belgians. Picton's brigades are arriving as the battle begins, so the Dutch/Belgians will be hard pressed to hang on and buy time for the rest of the army to deploy around the little village of Quatre Bras and its vital cross roads.

The battle field from the east

Gemioncourt, defended by Dutch militia

Jagers defend the stream east of Gemioncourt

The French right

Nassau battalions defending Bossau Wood.

Materne Pond

Close up of Gemioncourt and its defenders

Massed French formations ready to assault.

French Corps artillery deployed

The allied position from the south.

From behind the French right.

Dutch hussars

Belgian light dragoons

Belgian line infantry supporting a battery.

Picton's lead brigade arriving.