SNC033-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale figure we are offering. It comes in bubble wrap with original Osprey booklet.
Del Prado SNC033 Trooper, Bavarian Chevau-legers, 1792
Traditionally Bavaria, a fragmented state within the Holy Roman Empire, had allied herself to France, as in the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-48), the Seven Years War (1756-63) and in the War of the Bavarian Succession (1778-79). Member states were required to furnish armed contingents to fight for the Imperial cause in time of war, and Bavarian troops were duly mobilized in 1792 to oppose the armies of Revolutionary France. By October of that year, however, Bavaria had declared her neutrality in the struggle.
By 1796 the Holy Roman Empire was falling apart. France had taken the Spanish Netherlands (Belgium), Alsace, Lorraine and many other areas on the left bank of the Rhine by force of arms. War broke out again when the French representatives at the Congress of Rastatt, convened to redraw the map of Germany, were murdered by Austrian agents while on a journey.