When grown-ups play with tin soldiers or soldiers made of plastic/other material they usually put them up in certain pattern to demonstrate a famous battle.
I try to remember what I saw when I was around 3-5 years old. A friend to my father-I think he was, had his entire basement arranged with fields mini trees mini hills mini trench.
If I remember correctly he had build in some scale the last battle of sonderburg 1864.
On tv I have seen some American making a true copy of some famous civil war battle.
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In Denmark it is called slaget ved dybbøl-Eng the second Schleswig war
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Schleswig_War
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