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Featured battle : Sveaborg
Part of Russo-Swedish War 1808
Date : 06 April 1808
Two months after hostilities began the Russian were able to take this strong fortress, 'the Gibraltar of the North' , with very few losses. All Swedes who were not killed in the action [6,850] were taken prisoner. A large amount of military stores and the whole of the Swedish inshore fleet were also taken.
Featured image :
British Fox CVR(W)
An image of a Fox Combat Vehicle, Reconnaissance (Wheeled) or CVR(W) formerly in service with the Queens Own Yeomanry, a British Territorial Army or volunteer regiment but now serving as a gate guardian. It was equipped with a 30mm Rarden gun in it's rather over-sized turret which caused it to be notoriously top heavy. It could reach speeds of up to 65mph (105km/h) but had a tendency to roll if cornering at speed, sometimes with fatal results. It was built by Royal Ordnance, Leeds and served in the mid to late 1970's and 1980's.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Global Seven Years War
Daniel Baugh
This book is no lightweight with 665 pages of really 'meaty' text and a further 81 pages of supporting notes and index. The content covers, in depth, the full nine years of the Seven Years War. The military, naval and the political aspects with their necessary interactions are well covered. The character, motivation and machinations of the leading figures are described as are the resultant effects. The book is without illustrations but has seventeen supporting maps. The narrative flows easily and logically and pages once started are difficult to put down because always there is something interesting coming next. The vast majority of the text is free from the author's opinions and comments which are reserved for the long final chapter.
A war of four continents and seven oceans in one excellent readable book.
Routledge, 2014
Reviewed : 2017-08-24 07:11:00
