Kit# 9818 - British Naval Brigade 71st NY Volunteers where the heavy smoke of

where the heavy smoke of their old Springfields revealed their positions to the Spaniards

The "Berserks" or "Berserkers"

burdened down with over sixty pounds of ill-fitting equipment which did not even provide for such basic necessities as a bar of soap

Valiant Miniature Kit# 9939 - English Foot Knight

Kit contains six  unpainted and unassembled lead free pewter Ships

Kit# 9818 - British Naval Brigade 71st NY Volunteers where the heavy smoke ofValiant Miniature Kit# 9818 British Naval Brigade, Gunner, Crimean War. It had long been common practice in amphibious operations for the Royal Navy to provide a portion of the men and guns necessary to support the landing force. At Sebastopol the unfortunate naval gunners found themselves committed to a protracted siege on land, burrowing like moles in the Crimean mud and suffering from such unseamanlike discomforts and diseases as trenchfoot,