Crimean War French Chasseurs d'Afrique command WM-14-10-2021 Yasuke came to the attention

Yasuke came to the attention of the powerful daimyo Oda Nobunaga when he was presented to him as a curiosity

giving it great hitting power and better mobility and its armour had been doubled in places greatly increasing its survivability

Typically the LMG would be the DP (Degtyaryov Pekhotny) machine gun

but met her fate at the Battle of Cape Esperance on 12th October 1942

Crimean War French Chasseurs d'Afrique command WM-14-10-2021 Yasuke came to the attentionThe cavalry division that served in the Crimea was quite small, with neither the French nor British able to deploy large numbers of cavalry due to the difficulty with transport and the availability of horses in theatre. The initial cavalry brigade did, however four regiments of the Chasseurs dAfrique, consisting of eight squadrons each. This cavalry went on to take part in the Battle of Balaklava. This pack contains three mounted command figures, cast