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Featured battle : Aldbourne Chase
Part of The Civil Wars of the Three Kingdoms
Date : 18 September 1643
Prince Rupert's horse fought a delaying action against Essex's van, allowing the Kings main forces to gain Newbury and cut Essex off from London.
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HMS Antelope - F170

An Amazon Class [Type 21] Frigate sunk in the Falklands Campaign. Built. 1975 by Vosper Thornycroft to a commercial design and subsequently bought by the Royal Navy. Displacement. 3250 tons Dimensions. 117m x 13m x 6m. Speed. 34 knots Complement. 170. Armament. 1 x 4.5inch gun, 2 x 20mm guns, 4 Exocet missiles, 1 x Sea Cat missile system, 1 Wasp/Lynx helicopter.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
Fighting for the French Foreign Legion - Memoirs of a Scottish Legionnaire
Lochrie, Alex
There are quite a number of memoirs out there of men attracted by the legion, and I've read most of them. Luckily, this one ranks quite highly amongst those I've read. The author manages to join the legion at quite an advanced age - 38 - and so brings a different viewpoint to the training and life as an older man.
His training and experience as a member of their special forces is usual for this kind of book - he serves in Tchad, Bosnia, Desert Storm, but he becomes a technical specialist in photographic techniques and brings a sensitivity to his writing that is sometimes lacking in others. It's a more thoughtful book, and should be a good addition to anyone's Legion library.
Pen & Sword Military, 2013
Reviewed : 2015-05-27 20:14:20