Friday, 30 November 2012

Rocroi 1643 by Ugo Pinson

See more of this work here

Rocroi Book

Although its only in Spanish this book looks worth getting. Looks like the Spanish had scraps of red cloth to distinguish them. Anyone have this book?

Thursday, 29 November 2012

Jérémie de Billon, Les Principes de l'Art militaire, 1633

Le mareschal de bataille (1647)


 A useful book on the French army of the 40s is this one. Not sure if there's a cheap reprint available?



Participants for Rocroi 2013

Here. Quite a good number of contingents from the UK. Excellent.

Image Arcabucero de un Tercio - Rocroi, 1643 - Francisco Rueda Sagaseta. From here

Monday, 26 November 2012

Minden 1759 in 2014

Facebook page for the event in Germany.

Seven Years War book

More details here
'William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham, Britain’s war leader, stated that ‘America was won in Germany.’ How could Prussian successes on the continent of Europe have sounded the death knell for New France and Spanish ambitions in North America? Armies of the Seven Years War explains the connection and the outcomes of all the complex alliances that led to the ‘first world war’.'