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Featured battle : Romano
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 26 May 1800
A determined hard fought defence by the Austrians who were now becoming aware of the size of the French force which had crossed the Alps. Napoleon was in command of the Army of Reserve. After the battle the Austrians were not pursued as they withdrew southwards.
Featured image :
Hawker Hunter E-419
First introduced in the early 1950's and still serving with various airforces around the world right into the 1990's, the Hunter has been described as Britain's most successful post-war military aircraft. It was also the last in a line of classic fighters build by the Hawker aircraft factory. This example is a Mk 51 (similar to the British Mk 4) built for the Danish Air Firce in the 1950's and given to the museum on it's retirement in the 1970's. Powered by a Rolls Royce Avon Turbojet up to Mach 0.94 it was armed with 4 x 30mm Aden cannons in the nose beneath the cockpit and could carry up to 2,000lbs of under-wing stores including 1,000lb and 500lb bombs, 24 x 3 inch rockets or extra fuel in drop tanks (useful since the internal fuel capacity of the Hunter was very low).
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Waterloo Battlefield Guide
David Buttery
From the outset this book delivered more than I was expecting. Not only was there a description of the many places relevant to the Waterloo story placed, of course, in their modern setting to make them easy to find; but there was also a narrative of the battle with the troop dispositions and timings as accurate as you will find anywhere else. The maps and illustrations are numerous and good servants to the text. I read the book before my visit to Belgium and, having now used it extensively while there, my advice to the would be visitor is read it before you go and don't go without it. Highly recommended.
Pen & Sword Family Military, 2013
Reviewed : 2015-07-17 19:36:23
