Have a great 2023

 

Francis Hawley

Movietone News Marston Moor

 Some old footage of the Sealed Knot back in its infancy (July1969). 

Gadebusch 1712

 Today's anniversary. Wiki. Also see below a Pdf in Danish on the battle.

Merry Christmas

 Seasons greetings. Remember if it snows make sure you get snowed in at your favourite pub!

Coming in the New Year from Stephen M. Carter

 Details here. Incidentally the cover image is the Royal English Regiment in 1673.

Denmark in the GNW (Gadebusch 1712) Pdf

 

Danish military magazine article. It's in Danish but is very well illustrated. 

Sweden and the Seven Years War

 It is hard to find much out about this. Pomeranian War

1756 Armémuseum

1985 Bath and West Show

 Thanks to Andy for this. For his history of Devereux's regiment. Sedgemoor tercentenary. I wasn't in it then I joined later that summer. ECWS did it. There was a reconstructed hamlet and a daily arena display. If you want to see photos go here

1765 Swedish

 From the Swedish Armémuseum

1765 Swedish uniforms

 More here. 

Alton 1643

 Today's anniversary. Wiki

David Morier 15th Light Dragoons

 

Kronoskaf on the regiment.

Some reading for December

 Got these from my local library loan service. I love libraries.

The Lady and the Highwaymen (1989)

 Do you remember this tv movie? Has Michael York as Charles II and has others like Oliver Reed and a young Hugh Grant. Wiki. It is based on a novel by Barbara Cartland. But if you have a fascination with bad movies it is in full on Youtube here

Irish brigade article

 Pierre-Louis Coudray discusses the inspiration behind his book More Furies than men. Here

Sweet Karoliners

 Article by Wargames Illustrated on the army of Charles XII owned by Charles Singleton. 28mm. It's a great piece. On YouTube

Philippa Gregory's new novel Dawnlands

 Thanks to Ursula for the heads up. Set in the Monmouth Rebellion. This is from her website.

The new historical novel from Philippa Gregory, the Number One bestselling author of Tidelands and Dark Tides.

The spellbinding Fairmile series continues as the fiercely independent Alinor and her family find themselves entangled in palace intrigue, political upheaval, and life-changing secrets in seventeenth-century England.

It is 1685, England is on the brink of a renewed civil war against the Stuart kings and many families are bitterly divided. Ned Ferryman cannot persuade his sister Alinor that he is right to return from America with his Pokanoket servant Rowan to join the rebel army. Instead, Alinor has been coaxed by the manipulative Livia to save the queen from the coming siege. The rewards are life-changing: the family could return to their beloved Tidelands, and Alinor could rule where she was once lower than a servant.

Alinor’s son, Rob, is determined to stay clear of the war, but when he and his nephew set out to free Ned from execution for treason and Rowan from a convict deportation to Barbados, they find themselves enmeshed in the creation of an imposter Prince of Wales – a surrogate baby to the queen.

From the last battle in the desolate Somerset Levels to the hidden caves on the slave island of Barbados, this third volume of an epic story follows a family from one end of the empire to another, to find a new dawn in a world which is opening up before them with greater rewards and dangers than ever before.

Dawnlands will be out on 8 November 2022.

Grolle after film

 A successful 17th century event in the Netherlands. There are lessons to be learned from this event. Popular with UK reenactor too. 

The Three Musketeers trailer (2023)

 Stars Eva Green. 

Monmouth Rebellion novel by Gary Kearley

 A tale of loyalty, sacrifice, jealousy and betrayal set against the backdrop of the Monmouth Rebellion of 1685.

Nathaniel Carver and Thomas Edgecott are lifelong friends having been born within days of each other in the Dorset seaport of Lyme Regis in 1664. Nat works with his father John in the family smithy, Thomas is a shoemaker. William Pearce, a weaver from Taunton is old enough to be their father and gamekeeper Samuel White is older still, having fought with Oliver Cromwell at Marston Moor some twenty years before Nat and Thomas were born.

Nat, Thomas, John, William, Samuel and thousands of other ordinary West Country men are thrown together by the arrival of James, Duke of Monmouth, on the south coast in 1685, intent on wrestling the crown of England from his uncle, James II. The ill-fated rebellion will last for little more than three weeks but it will change all their lives forever.

The Army of Frederick the Great Christopher Duffy

 This classic work has been reprinted many times but originally came out in 1974. 

From Goodreads

It was a famous army, but it is not always understood. It was praised for introducing a revolution in the art of war and notorious for the brutality of its discipline, but how did this army really work? This is a study of the greatest army of its time by the finest historian of the wars of the 18th Century. The Prussian military machine is analyzed in detail, from top to bottom, from the mentality of the Junkers who led it to the way the men were clothed. The tactics, the recruitment, the finances of the military are laid bare. This is much more than a technical study, as we see how these regiments stood up to the test of the bloody battles of the Seven Years War and the long years of virtual imprisonment in barracks. The image of a formidable army forged by fear rather than leadership proves to be only partly true, but the tribulations of serving a hard taskmaster like Frederick the Great are well described by soldiers and observers of all ranks. The classic study of one of history's most famous armies has been heavily revised and updated through twenty more years of research and consideration. Now we can see the rise of the cavalry from the ridiculous to the superb, the once invincible infantry bleed white, and the light forces change from being negligible to being the terror of their enemies. A great army is made flesh and blood.

Leuthen 1757

 

Today's anniversary is the famous Prussian victory. Wiki

watch a clip from the 1933 movie Choral Von Leuthen

Lund 1676

 

Today's anniversary from the Scanian war..

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Lund

From Aleksandr Kabankov

 "Hello friends!))I present a figurine of an English Grenadier Guard during the War of the Spanish Succession.The figure is made for the company  Troop54 on a scale of 75 mm (1/22). The musket is the work of 3D master Oleg Derbasov."

Louis XV's army series by René Chartrand

 I was delighted when this series came out in the late 90s. Still rate it as very useful.

His Britannic Majesty's army in Germany Savory

 This book came out in 1966 and has been reprinted several times. Rated as a classic.

Hitting the shops from Strelets-R

 One for you 1/72 gamers. I found out the name of the artist who does the box set  - Anton Batov.