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Featured battle : Chantonnay
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 05 September 1793
The Republicans were engaged by a very much larger force of Vendéen Royalists. The Republican losses were very heavy.
Featured image :
General Cronje's Commandants.
A photograph entitled "Gen. Cronje's principle Commandants - surrendered to Lord Roberts, Feb 27th, S. Africa." showing a group of senior Boers reputedly taken by the British after Paardeberg. Currently I have no names to put to faces - anyone recognise anyone? Nice illustration of Boer dress of the time.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Cromwell's War Machine. The New Model Army 1645-1660
Keith Roberts
Cromwell's War Machine describes the tactics and organization of the armies of the English Civil war within a context. That context was the Eurpoean military scene varied experience of which was brought into this country by Officers and men who had fought as mercenaries in the various European wars. The reader gains an understanding not only of what but more fundamentally why things were as they were. Only one chapter is given over to the campaigns of the New Model army, which is the sole subject of many other works. The prose is lucid and flowing and the extensive footnotes [nearly five hundred] do not impinge upon the text.
Highly recommended.
Pen & Sword Military, 2005
Reviewed : 2013-01-22 00:00:00
