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Featured battle : Ulm
Part of French War of the Third Coalition
Date : 15 October 1805 - 20 October 1805
Ulm was surrounded by II, IV, V, VI Corps, Ney's Cavalry and the Imperial Guard. Although Field Marshall Mack wished to fight on to buy time for the other Coalition armies to organize his generals negotiated with Napoleon. A five day armistice was granted by Napoleon. On the 20th October the whole Austrian force surrendered. French supplies were swelled by 59 field guns, 3000 horses and 300 ammunition wagons. This battle was decisive in the out come of the war.
Featured image :
The Newcastleton detachment, 4th Kings Own Scottish Borderers, 1914
A photograph exhibited in the Liddesdale Heritage Centre, Newcastleton showing the Territorials of the 4th KOSB with the caption "The territorials, under the command of Major Cochrane, on parade in Douglas Square before leaving for active service in the 1914-18 war". Alongside the photograph, which incidentally includes the photographer's grandfather, is the following list of those pictured (Left to right): Andrew Jardine, Billy Crozier, David Robson, Frank Cowan, Jock Elliot, Tom Elliot, George Nicholson, Hugh Adamson, Johnnie Hogg, Jim Armstrong, Wattie Elliot, Major Cochrane (officer in front), Sandy Elliot, Jock Holliday, Barton Robson, David Oliver, Willie Thompson, Jimmy Foster, Tom Ewart, Alex Inglis, Thomas Inglis, Wull Little.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
British Army of the Rhine - The BAOR 1945-1993
Paul Chrystal
Part of the "Cold War 1945-1991" series, this is quite a small book at only 126 pages, to cover such a large subject and I think that's it's biggest issue. It tries to cover too much. There are sections which are interesting and obviously well researched, particularly the chapters on the predecessors and formation of the BAOR, de-nazification & fraternisation and the 'families on the Rhine'. The sources and further reading sections are useful too. However the majority of the period of the BAOR's service is somewhat sparsely covered, and the token section on the RAF and the Royal Navy really should have been left out all together. There is hopefully a much bigger, more comprehensive book somewhere that this is taster for, and I would very much like to read it. The author has a good grasp of the subject and good photographs supplied by his family furnishing welcome detail and authenticity but it has definitely lost something in the edit.
Pen and Sword Military, Barnsley, 2018
Reviewed : 2019-04-29 20:02:17
