Prince August SYW British by Daniel Riesig

 37th Foot. Very impressive.

Seven Years' War range of 40mm scale sem-flat moulds

Declaration of War 1756

 (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.

Fantassin italiens, vers 1660

 

Solemn entry of the Illustrious Mr. Confalonier of Justice, which takes place every two months at the public palace of Bologna by one of the Illustrious 50 Senators of said City, departing from his house with eight Ancient Consuls, escorted by the Gentlemen Doctors, by the Illustrious Senate, and by the majority of the Nobility ... (1700). Prints, Drawings and Watercolors from the Anne S.K. Brown Military Collection.

For World Baking Day

 Text from the Rijksmusem

The Baker Arent Oostwaard and his Wife, Catharina Keizerswaard

The Baker Arent Oostwaard and his Wife, Catharina Keizerswaard, is a 1658 painting by Jan Havickszoon Steen. This artwork depicts a baker and his wife at their bakery stall, which is situated under a leafy vine-covered structure. The baker, a man with long light-brown hair and a white cap, is prominently featured, his hands resting on a wooden board laden with various breads and pastries. His wife stands beside him, holding a basket of bread. A child is partially visible in the background, seemingly observing the scene. The bakery's wares are abundant and varied, including loaves of bread, rolls, pretzels hanging from a rack, and what appears to be a large, possibly spiced, loaf. The setting is dark and intimate, with the brick wall of the building visible behind the stall. The overall style is characteristic of Dutch genre painting, focusing on everyday life and the details of the scene. The painting is in the collection of the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, Netherlands. 

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Compagnie te Voet Recruitment

 English subtitles. 

Loading a musket after De Gheyn II

 Musket drill by Compagnie te Voet 

Battle of Zusmarshausen

 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.