SNC026-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Paint chips.
Del Prado SNC026 Trumpeter, Portuguese Cavalry, 1806-1810
The Portuguese cavalry originated in 1640 when a number of permanent companies were mustered as part of the new regular army raised by King JoIV. His orders had produced a regular army of 20,000 infantrymen and 4,000 cavalry, one of the largest standing armies in western Europe at the time, and insured the independence of the country from Spain.
In 1707 during Queen Annes War, when Portuguese troops often served with British troops in Spain, the army was organised into regiments, but all were disbanded and totally reorganised from 1715.
Regiments of dragoons were added to the heavy cavalry units from the 1730s, and the Braganza Light Cavalry in 1754, the dragoon regiments were Olivenza, Evora, Chaves and Mirand, but the army overall slid into considerable neglect during this period and was outclassed when Spain declared war in 1762.