We have some releases to our English Civil War range and especially the Covenanters.
From the film Cromwell. I am a fan of this movie. Saw it at an impressionable age and it ticked all the boxes. They originally wanted Heston for Cromwell - so glad they went with Harris and Guinness.
This image is a detail of the drummer from the famous 1642 oil painting, The Night Watch, by Dutch Golden Age artist Rembrandt van Rijn.
Carving (c.1600) on an oak bookcase, thought to be originally from a bedstead in Threave Castle, Kirkcudbrightshire. Detail of an exhibit in the National Museum of Scotland in Edinburgh. From here
Article on the celebrated drum beat. Any reenactors out there play it?
https://lbps.net/.../166-december.../1134-the-sctocth-march
JG Baroque says
A while ago, my attention was brought to this melody by a listener, who was kind enough to provide me with a print from 1724 (entitled "Musick for Allan Ramsay's collection of 71 Scotch Songs"), where it is listed as "Dumbarton Drums". It is still today used as a regimental march by the Royal Scots Regiment, which also happens to be the oldest line regiment in the British army, founded in 1633. The tune carries elements from an older folk song called "I serve a worthy lassie", but this version has gotten its name from General George Douglas, 1st Earl of Dumbarton, who commanded the regiment from 1653 until his fall from grace after the Glorious Revolution in 1688. This arrangement is somewhat slower than what you usually hear, both because the soldiers marched slower in the 17th century than they do today, but also because it allows the beautiful melody to come forth. The march is probably one of the oldest regimental marches still in use in the British army.
Calling all Wargamers, model and tabletop fans!
These are very nice. Alex says '1:30 Scale. 3D printing, flexible plastic. Pm me for the price. Separate pike shafts and heads included Facebook
Siege of Stralsund (1628) - Wikipedia
This is being prepared for Salute. Looks fantastic. By Yarkshire Gamers Reet Big Wargames (Podcast) Group | Facebook
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A Library of Military Manuals – White Horse Wares
This is useful. Thanks
Belfast-based curator James O’Neill’s The Nine Years War: Part One, 1593–1603 re-examines a conflict long mislabelled as “Tyrone’s Rebellion.” Drawing on archaeology and military history, O’Neill shows how disciplined Irish armies met England on equal terms in one of the Tudor era’s bloodiest wars.
Read the blog post here: https://helionbooks.wordpress.com/.../the-nine-years-war.../
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| Portrait of Henry de Vere, 18th Earl of Oxford (half-length, by John Payne) in a separate plate as frame with military exercises (by Willem de Passe) Engraving |
Has English subtitles. Henri 4 (film) - Wikipedia
In 1563, Calvinist Protestantism has arrived in France, but the Catholic reaction is not long in coming and the small but steadily growing Protestant population is suppressed in French society. However, the Huguenots, particularly in Southern France and in the small Kingdom of Navarre near Spain, resisted. Catherine de' Medici, the actual ruler of France, wants to counter this. Her two sons, Charles IX and Francis, Duke of Anjou show weakness in this fight and Henry, the young prince of Navarre, vital strength. Catherine de' Medici has to give in and makes Henry an offer of peace, which he, tired of fighting, accepts. This peace also means that Margot, the daughter of the Medicis, married in Paris with Henry. But even during the wedding celebrations, the Catholics strike: They cause a bloodbath among the Protestant wedding guests who have traveled. About 20,000 Huguenots die on this Bartholomew night.
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The Battle of Braddock Down took place during the south-western campaign of the First English Civil War. It was fought on open ground in Cornwall, on 19 January 1643. An apparently easy victory for the Royalists under Sir Ralph Hopton secured Cornwall for King Charles and confirmed Hopton's reputation as a commander. Hopton also gained respect for the mercy shown to his foe, of whom 1,500 were captured during and after the battle. The precise location of the battlefield is a matter of dispute, though English Heritage believe it to be within parkland at Boconnoc.
JG Baroque says
This tune was requested a long time ago, but somehow slipped out of my consciousness. Recently, I found it again by chance, and decided to look into the tune, which I found to be both beatiful and intriguing. As it seems, there are many melodies to "The Lowlands of Holland", and this one, a beautiful melody in the mixolydian mode, was published in 1747. The melody was apparently popular with the Scots Brigade (also known as the "Anglo-Dutch" or "Anglo-Scots" Brigade), a Dutch military unit consisting of mostly Scots, that served during a period of more than a hundred years in the "Low Lands", that is, modern day Netherlands.
The image shows a scene with Maurice of Orange dismissing a troop of mercenaries, possibly Scottish, from service in 1618. The painting was made in 1625 by the Dutch artist Joost Cornelisz Droochsloot.
Scanian War
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My daughter's man David has got the AI bug and I sent him a pic of me at our local and he did this to it.
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The retreat from Derby was not the end of the Jacobite Rising, it was a tactical realignment. Following a highly disciplined and orderly withdrawal from England, the Jacobite Army arrives in Glasgow not as a broken force, but as a growing threat.
In this episode, we examine a Jacobite army at its peak strength: refitted, reinforced by fresh Highland reinforcements, and bolstered by the arrival of French regulars and gold. The tactical situation has never looked brighter for the Stuarts as they lay siege to Stirling Castle and prepare to meet General Hawley on the rainy moors of Falkirk. We are joined once again by historian and author Dr. Arran Johnston to break down the final major victory of the '45. |
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