The Battle of Honnecourt took place on 26 May 1642, during the 1635 to 1659 Franco-Spanish War. A Spanish army led by Francisco de Melo defeated and largely destroyed a French force under the Comte de Guiche.
The Battle of Honnecourt, by Peter Snayers.[1]
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Yves Martin has posted a series of articles by Bryan Fosten on the early English army on the above group. .
This is for German-speaking readers. Lutter is 400 years old in August.
Art and video by Thomas Payton.
This tune was published in Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy (Originally in 1706). It appeared in The Recruiting Officer, a comedy by George Farquhar and in John Gay's The Beggar's Opera (1728). The lyrics refer to the War of the Spanish Succession (1701--1714), the Duke of Marlborough, and Queen Anne of England (1665 --1714).
Could a single afternoon shatter the hegemony of the "Sun King" and reshape the map of Europe? In May 1706, the War of Spanish Succession hung on a knife’s edge as the French army left its defensive lines to seek a decisive engagement. Join hosts Dr. Alexander Burns, Dr. Andrew Bamford and Lee Gugino as they welcome back General Ewan Carmichael to deconstruct the Battle of Ramillies, a tactical masterpiece of 18th-century warfare.
In this episode, we apply the modern military framework of find, fix, strike, and exploit to examine how the Duke of Marlborough lured the French into a deadly trap. We explore the "Revolution in Military Affairs" triggered by the socket bayonet and flintlock musket, the brutal infantry struggle in the Ramillies churchyard, and the earth-shaking collision of 25,000 cavalrymen. Discover how Marlborough's ability to "lead from the front" and his obsession with logistics turned a polyglot coalition into the most feared force in the "Cockpit of Europe". Meet the Expert General Ewan Carmichael: A veteran military professional and historian, General Carmichael brings a unique perspective on the War of Spanish Succession. His expertise bridges the gap between 18th-century "war of posts" and modern tactical doctrine.Battle of Ramillies - Wikipedia
Today's anniversary. Reenactors from all over Europe are reenacting it this weekend.
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The drum march, pure and simple, was one of the main features of martial discipline, and every nation had its own particular national type. Gordon of Rothiemay records of 1637-1638 how Scottish drummers were teaching their soldiery to distinguish between "The marches of severall nationes . . . the Scottish Marche . . . the Irish Marche . . . the English Marche."1 This knowledge was a necessary item even in the economy of tactics. During the Thirty Years' War the Germans once used the Scots March so as to deceive the enemy.2 At Oudenarde the Allied drummers beat the French Retraite,which even a Vendôme could not stem.8
Warlike directions, or, The sovldiers practice set forth for the benefit of all such as are, or will be, scholars of martiall discipline, but especially for all such officers as are not yet setled or rightly grounded in the arte of warre, by a practitioner in the same art, T.F.
Just ordered these from the Library. Looking forward to reading them. Bumph for the first one reads
The Vale of the Red Horse, Edgehill, Warwickshire, October, 1642. Bitter divisions that have grown unchecked in the kingdoms of the Stuart dynasty are about to engulf England in a bloody civil war. 30,000 men have gathered to determine the fate of nations and to pursue their own ideals and enmities through brutal and bloody combat. Many have never handled a weapon or strayed far from their native shire.
Among them are Anthony Sedley the Birmingham iron worker and Leveller, Robbie Needham, an embittered lead miner from Derbyshire who picks up a pike for his king, George Merrick, the young Oxford graduate whose prospects have been blighted by court corruption, Hywel Lloyd, a proud Welsh hill farmer, and William Bennet the struggling merchant who has staked everything to raise a company for the parliamentary cause.
Then there are the half-brothers, Ralph and Francis Reeve, sons of a Suffolk farmer. Pious Francis has abandoned his studies at Cambridge to make England a New Jerusalem, cleansed of sin and filth. He despises his carefree brother and the father who seems to favour him. Caught cuckolding a London merchant, Ralph has forfeited his apprenticeship and indenture money. He dreams of restoring his honour and his fortune when he returns to London with the king's victorious army. But first the brothers must face each other in the Vale of the Red Horse, the horse whose rider is War... God's vindictive wrath!
I have been reading a fair bit on the Civil war in the West and so was glad to find this. Ralph Hopton, 1st Baron Hopton - Wikipedia
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They'll be taking pre-orders this weekend for them.
Sack of Magdeburg - Wikipedia Today's anniversary. Considered the worst massacre of the 30YW.
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Valdštejn festivities 2026 are already in the past. We thank everyone who were not discouraged by the weather and enjoyed it with us. And we thank all those who participated in their preparations and during the course! We had a blast!
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'Ce soir nous vous présentons le groupe de la Maison Militaire du Roi présent aux Heures Historiques de Sully-sur-Loire'
1985.
Although King Frederick only composed sporadically in his later years—almost his entire life’s work dates from before the Seven Years’ War in 1756, which brought Prussia and its ruler to the verge of ruin—the flute, and flute-playing, remained his loyal companions to his dying days. As late as 1770 the famous soprano Elisabeth Mara acclaimed his ‘strong, full tone and great proficiency’. And the well-travelled English music historian Charles Burney explicitly praised Frederick’s skills: ‘His playing was superior, in many respects, to anything I had heard from amateur or indeed professional flute-players.’ His own compositions, which he performed in small private concerts, were highly valued for their quality, although Frederick would have been well aware that in Quantz, Graun, C.P.E. Bach and other musicians in his court orchestra he had assembled a group of outstanding performers who would breathe new life into the musical life of Berlin and Potsdam in the middle of the 18th century and would have far-reaching effects as the fine arts moved towards a new cultural aesthetic of sensibility, ultimately ushering in the era of Sturm und Drang.
– Detlef Giese
English translation: Saul Lipetz
Recordings by Frederick II King of Prussia | Now available to stream and purchase at Naxos
First look at the new Musketeers range in metal. Released June 2026. North Star Military Figures - Home Page
(French and Indian War) | George II's formal declaration of
GEORGE II, King of England (1683-1760). His Majesty’s Declaration of War against the French King … Given at Our Court at Kensington, the Seventeenth Day of May, 1756. London: printed by Thomas Baskett, 1756.
The Battle of Zusmarshausen was fought on 17 May 1648 between Bavarian-Imperial forces under von Holzappel and an allied Franco-Swedish army under the command of Carl Gustaf Wrangel and Turenne in the modern Augsburg district of Bavaria, Germany. The allied force emerged victorious, and the Imperial army was only rescued from annihilation by the stubborn rearguard fighting of Raimondo Montecuccoli and his cavalry.[6]
Zusmarshausen was the last major battle of the war to be fought on German soil during the Thirty Years' War, and was also the largest battle (in terms of numbers of men involved; casualties were relatively light) to take place in the final three years of the war.
Various artists. There is a play 1536 that is causing a stir at the moment.
If I had my own ECW regiment I would have the shot use rests. It seems o-one does it any more and I think they should. Yes it may seem difficult but they had them in the period for the most part so we should make the effort, especially if your regiment is from the early years. With the 30 YW anniversaries upon us we should be willing and able to use rests.
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I didn't watch this when it was first aired being a young adult but I think I will give this a try.
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