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The Biggest Armies in European History: From Ro...
In 216 BC, on a dusty plain in southern Italy, Rome put roughly 86,000 men into a single line of battle. It was the largest army the Republic had ever...
The Biggest Armies in European History: From Ro...
In 216 BC, on a dusty plain in southern Italy, Rome put roughly 86,000 men into a single line of battle. It was the largest army the Republic had ever...
Knights, Castles and Crusader Kings: Warfare in...
Around the year 1200, a traveller crossing Europe would have seen the same shape rising over almost every horizon. A stone keep on a mound, a lord's banner above the...
Knights, Castles and Crusader Kings: Warfare in...
Around the year 1200, a traveller crossing Europe would have seen the same shape rising over almost every horizon. A stone keep on a mound, a lord's banner above the...
Skirmish or Mass Battle: Which Style of Wargame...
Picture two tables in the same club room on the same evening. On the first, a dozen figures creep between the buildings of a frontier town, and every single one...
Skirmish or Mass Battle: Which Style of Wargame...
Picture two tables in the same club room on the same evening. On the first, a dozen figures creep between the buildings of a frontier town, and every single one...
The Man Who Won Everything and Lost It All
For two centuries, historians have argued about the same question. Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor in 1804 as the master of continental Europe. Eleven years later, on a ridge in...
The Man Who Won Everything and Lost It All
For two centuries, historians have argued about the same question. Napoleon Bonaparte crowned himself Emperor in 1804 as the master of continental Europe. Eleven years later, on a ridge in...
Did Gunpowder Create the Modern Army Pike, Shot...
In 1525, outside the walls of Pavia, a Spanish army trapped inside a walled hunting park did something that should not have worked. Spanish arquebusiers, screened behind hedges and garden...
Did Gunpowder Create the Modern Army Pike, Shot...
In 1525, outside the walls of Pavia, a Spanish army trapped inside a walled hunting park did something that should not have worked. Spanish arquebusiers, screened behind hedges and garden...
From Musket Line to Massed Rifle: How Americans...
In the spring of 1861, the officers who would command the great armies of the American Civil War opened their war with the drill books of their grandfathers. They had...
From Musket Line to Massed Rifle: How Americans...
In the spring of 1861, the officers who would command the great armies of the American Civil War opened their war with the drill books of their grandfathers. They had...