1757 BATTLE OF LEUTHEN - THE DIORAMA WITH PAPERSOLDIERS

 I have to admit: all my passion (almost all to tell the truth) for papersoldiers in their last version started with the idea to replicate a diorama of the Battle of Leuthen, done with flat figures. It was (and still is) very impressive with all those flat figures at 1:1 ratio, giving a clear idea of what was a real battle in that epoch (quite different - I would say - from the idea we have from wargames); os why not to do the same, but with paper?

So I did in 2015 and after a while (1 year) as usual I stopped the project, after having done the village, the churches and thousands of papersoldiers.

The other day I was scrolling the TMP where the usual Tango 1 found and published the diorama of the Battle of Leuthen I was speaking about. So, I told myself, I will publish in TMP under his pictures, my pictures. I went on my blog and I found that I published very few of them, having more than 100!!

So I think it is time to make it up, and hence I will publish my pictures of the diorama I did 10 years ago, and probably I will go on with it.

1744 MADONNA DELL'OLMO: THE FIRST EVER (DEFINITIVE) MAP OF THE BATTLE

With considerable effort, comparing different maps and sources and trying to avoid confusion and contradictions, I have finally fulfilled a long-held dream as a Piedmontese historian and enthusiast: to create what I believe is the final and definitive map of the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, fought on 30 September 1744 before the besieged town of Cuneo.

I am pleased to present here the result of this work, which, I must admit, required a great deal of time, research, and dedication to complete.

I prepared it also in a bigger version so that you can read the numbers.

here under the legenda of the numbers, Piedmontese/Austrian and French/Spanish

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and here the complete map

I think for the genesis of the map and how I reached this result, I will prepare a different post.

Just to know as main sources 

- "La Campagna Militare del 1744 nelle Alpi Occidentali e l'Assedio di Cuneo - Author Bartolomeo Giuliano. Biblioteca della Società per gli Studi Storici Archeologici ed Artistici della Provincia di Cuneo". This book with a lot of maps I found on ebay and immediatly bought. (1967)

- Attraverso le Alpi of Vittorio Turletti - Paravia - Year 1897 (bought on ebay)

- El Ejército Espanol tras la Guerra de Succesiòn (II) de Guerreros y Batallas of J. Notario Lòpez

- The Sardinian Piedmontese Army in the War of the Austrian Succession 1740 - 1748 of David A. Wilson by Helion & Company.

and others like this found on internet ... but I will explain in a next post.

1744 MADONNA DELL'OLMO ORDER OF BATTLE OF THE AUSTRO-PIEDMONTESE ARMY

 It was simplier to get info about OOB of the Austro-Piedmontese Army at the Battle of Madonna dell'Olmo, thanks to the maniacal way of the Piedmontese to write down every details and to keep it for centuries.

So I got quite good info about the OOB o the Piedmontese (with some Austrian help) for that battle, allowing me (this was my aim) to prepare the first ever complete map of tha battle with details of all the troops. I think the job was worthing.