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Ancients Collection

Ancients Collection

John Jenkins Designs are hand painted high quality military toy soldiers and vehicles produced with attention to detail. JJ Designs is highly collected world wide by historians, military enthusiasts, toy soldier collectors, and lovers of ancient pieces of antiquate. 

John Jenkins Designs offers a wide range of Historical Military Toy Soldiers and Military artillery and vehicles from a vast period of historical events. You, as a collector will find toy soldiers from World War I and World War II, The Spanish Civil War, American Civil War, Second World War, The great War, Kights of the Skies, Wheels Across the Desert, Gallipoli Campaign, The First Sudan War 1884-1885, Thw War of 1812, The Eighteenth Century Collection, Drums Along the Mohawk, Bushy Run 1763, Jacobite Rebellion, Ticonderoga, Raid on St. Francis, Plains of Abraham, The Battle of Snow Shoes 14th March 1758, Monongahela, The Seven Year War, Peninsula War, Conquest of America, The War of the Roses, The Ancients, The People's Liberation Army, China October 1st 2009, and The Town of Old Yangshuo, 1899.

The Gauls were Celtic peoples inhabiting Gaul in the Iron Age and the Roman period (roughly from the 5th century BC to the 5th century AD). The Gauls emerged around the 5th century BC as the bearers of the La Tène culture north of the Alps (spread across the lands between the Seine, Middle Rhine and upper Elbe). By the 4th century BC, they spread over much of what is now France, Belgium,Switzerland, Southern Germany,Austria and the Czech Republic by virtue of controlling the trade routes along the river systems of the Rh´ne, Seine, Rhine, and Danube, and they quickly expanded into Northern Italy, the Balkans, Transylvania and Galatia. Gaul was never united under a single ruler or overnment, but the Gallic tribes were capable of uniting their forces in large-scale military operations. They reached the peak of their power in the early 3rd century BC.B The rising Roman Republic after the end of the First Punic War increasingly put pressure on the Gallic sphere of influence; the Battle of Telamon of 225 BC heralded a gradual decline of Gallic power over the 2nd century, until the eventual conquest of Gaul in the Gallic Wars of the 50s BC. After this, Gaul became a province of the Roman Empire, and the Gauls were culturally assimilated into a Gallo-Roman culture, losing their tribal identities by the end of the 1st century AD.