Friday, 22 November 2024

Siege of Philippsburg (1676)

 Here. I think the Royal English Regiment was involved.


From Osprey Publishing

 Living history reenactor Alan Larsen depicts one of the Lobsters in full armor with a snaphaunce pistol. Note the Lobsters’ banner behind him. (Author’s collection)

Image from Steel Lobsters: Crown, Commonwealth, and the Last Knights in England by Myke Cole


Turenne book

 Got this through the Library system. Weygand was a French 20th century general.


French musketeers 1670s Lucien Rousselot

I have been rereading René Chartrand's Armies and Wars of the Sun King 1643-1715. It is a very good series volume 2 is the best on the infantry. According Chartrand uniformity was started in the 1660s and went on to the 70s so this is possibly what Turenne's infantry might have looked like. 
 

Thursday, 21 November 2024

Robert Fecher writes

 Good morning, here is a new essay from me again, this time regarding the Seven Years War in North Hesse and the Lower Rhine in 1760...

The Seven Years' War in Northwest Germany: From the Battle of Rhadern (13 September 1760) to the Battle of Kloster Kamp (15/16 October 1760) Eyewitness Accounts by Officers of the Auvergne Regiment

https://www.academia.edu/125647201/SMHPC_3_The_Seven_Years_War_in_Northwest_Germany_From_the_Battle_of_Rhadern_13_September_1760_to_the_Battle_of_Kloster_Kamp_15_16_October_1760_Eyewitness_Accounts_by_Officers_of_the_Auvergne_Regiment