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Featured battle : Langensalza
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 16 April 1813 - 17 April 1813
A brilliant example of a Streifkorps raid where a force outnumbered 10 to 1 took very few casualties and severely disrupted the enemy force. They also captured 5 guns and 3 ammunition wagons.
Featured image :
English foot soldiers of the Wars of the Roses
Here are depicted three different types of foot soldier from the time of the battle of Towton, 1461. On the left, he is a fully armoured man-at-arms with battle axe. In the centre is a foot soldier in the livery of the House of York armed with sword and buckler and a salet on his head but little other armour. Finally on the right is a billman, armed with an Englist bill, and partially armoured. Re-enactors are from the Company Palm Sunday 1461 group.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Waterloo Archive Volume VI: British Sources
Gareth Glover [Ed]
The last volume of this superb series by no means appears to 'scape the barrel' indeed it almost appears as if Gareth Glover has saved some of the best bits to the end. The illustrations are beautifully reproduced.
The series as a whole is a must for anyone who aspires to understand the battle and its context, the men, their families and the times they lived and died in.
It would be wrong to single out any particular volume, each is as good as another and having read one I am sure one would want to read them all. If we are really lucky perhaps Gareth Glover will find material enough for another volume.
Highly recommended.
Frontline Books, Pen & Sword Books Ltd., 2014
Reviewed : 2015-03-31 08:53:41
