Monday, 21 July 2025

Cromwell's Ironsides

 

Thanks to Stephen Tindle. Military Modelling 1977




Hampden's Greencoats

 

Thanks to Stephen Tindle. From August 1977's Military Modelling. By Trevor R. Hopkins illustrated by Richard Scollins.




Rupert's Cavaliers


 Another from Stephen Tindle's Military Modelling collection this one from September 1977. Art by Rick Scollins.




Sunday, 20 July 2025

Battle of Assietta 19 july 1747 by Alessia Maria Simona Giorda

 On July 19, 1747, a landmark battle took place in the War of the Austrian Succession. This battle took place at an altitude of over 2,500m. It pitted the French army (32 battalions, commanded by Louis Fouquet de Belle-Isle), which wanted to open the road to Turin, against a well-entrenched Austro-Sardinian army on the heights (13 battalions, commanded by Jean-Baptiste Cacherano de Bricherasio for the Kingdom of Sardinia). Source: Wikipedia. According to some historians, this battle was "one of the craziest offensives in the history of mountain warfare."












The Great Fire (2014)

 Did you watch this? I didn't but it looks interesting. I like the period. 

Saturday, 19 July 2025

The standards of the Royalist Infantry

 The standards of the Royalist Infantry by Charles Kightly and Anthony Barton from the September 1977 issue ofMilitary Modelling. Thanks to Stephen Tindle.







 

Friday, 18 July 2025

Battle of Elixheim 1705


 At the Battle of Elixheim, 18 July 1705, also known as the Passage of the Lines of Brabant during the War of the Spanish Succession, the Anglo-Dutch forces of the Grand Alliance, under the Duke of Marlborough, successfully broke through the French Lines of Brabant. These lines were an arc of defensive fieldworks stretching in a seventy-mile arc from Antwerp to Namur.[2] Although the Allies were unable to bring about a decisive battle, the breaking and subsequent razing of the lines would prove critical to the Allied victory at Ramillies the next year.