Paternal grandfather - Regimental Sergeant Major in the Irish Guards during WWI; father Captain in the Gurkha Rifles - fought in Burma, Vietnam & Malaya.
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Paternal grandfather - Regimental Sergeant Major in the Irish Guards during WWI; father Captain in the Gurkha Rifles - fought in Burma, Vietnam & Malaya.
Biographies/Pen Pictures of Generals
Dictionnaire biographique des généraux et amiraux français de la Révolution et de l'Empire : 1792-1814.
Préface. par le commandant André Lasseray
Author :...
Uniforms
Some extremely useful reference books in Italian to consult on-line:
Italy
I SOLDATI DEL PRIMO TRICOLORE ITALIANO
Autore: Valerio Gibellini
edito da Rivista Militare nel 1989...
Uniforms
France
A useful set of 91 gouaches by Boisselier on the militia at the end of the Ancien Régime & the Garde Nnationale at the start of the Révolution at...
Uniforms
Saxony
Markus Stein at Napoleon Online has posted the first of three series by the Viennese bookseller and publisher Franz Johann Josef Reilly (1766-1820) who published several uniform...
Uniforms
Prussia
Thanks to Markus Stein at Napoleon Online - Between 1814 and 1816, several uniform series were created in Paris with representations of the occupying forces, which were created...
Due to be India at the moment touring around, but clearly not able to do so. Similarly several trips planned to Europe earlier this year were called off. Hoping (fingers crossed etc) that we can...
Downloadable books, magazines etc
Thanks to Markus Stein for posting on Napoleon Online "In addition to the old French magazine Le Passepoil, which is already available for download on Napoleon...
Downloadable books, magazines etc
Digital copies, including all the United Service Journals (and earlier incarnations) filled with letters from officers bickering about who did what and...
Maps
From The Napoleonic Wars forum
John Gill - Prussia/Saxon Maps?
The http://mapire.eu/ site is a wonderful gateway to 18th and 19th century maps of the Habsburg Empire and southern Germany:...
Downloadable books, magazines etc
History of the Royal Sappers and Miners by T W J Connolly (Epub with illustrations)
Volume 1 ...
Maps
Thanks to Ezza123 at The Miniatures Page.
George III's collection of military maps comprises some 3,000 maps, views and prints ranging from the disposition of Charles V's armies at Vienna...
Downloadable books, magazines etc
Le Passepoil issues from 1920 to 1950 (bar Le Passepoil N°1 (1933)) are downladable from :La SABRETACHE
SOCIETE D'ETUDES D'HISTOIRE MILITAIRE
Association...
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War of 1812 (US, GB & Canada)
Olivier Millet has released a free online eBook in French on the armies of the US, GB & Canada, covering regular, militia & provincial units:...
Uniforms
Russia
Historical description of the clothing and equipment of Russian troops, with pictures
Edited by: Viskovatova A.v.
Original title: Historical clothes and opisanie Rossijskih...
Uniforms
1890-1939 Knötel Uniformenkunde
Napoleon on Line site has posted the Knotel plates for the Napoleonic era http://uniformenportal.de/index.php?/category/102&lang=en_GB
This is extremely...
One of the world's earliest known mosques, built around 1,200 years ago, has been discovered by archaeologists in Israel's Negev Desert.
The remains, dating from the 7th or 8th century, were found...
Hi Steph,
I am extremely sorry to hear your very sad news. Losing a hard drive is a complete bugger which I learnt from a similar experience resulting in having to rebuild my electronic...
Uniforms
Sweden
Thanks to Agathon v. Bahr at the Napoleon Series website, links to 3 very good booklets by Christian Braunstein. "Svenska arméns uniformer" on the Swedish army - first on...
Uniforms
Saxony
Markus Stein (Napoleon Series) has published on line 20 plates from a very detailed uniform series "Abbildung der neu organisirten Königlich-Sächsischen Armee in kolorirten...
This air support was not a US military operation. It was a CIA operation through their "Civil Air Transport" bought from the Nationalist Chinese - "CIA's Clandestine Services: Histories of Civil...
Post 4 updated with "Return of the French"; US intervention to be added...
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Spain
Los Dragones Cuera. Las Guarniciones de los Presidios de Nueva Espana https://publicaciones.defensa.gob.es/media/downloadable/files/links/l/o/los-dragones-de-cuera.pdf
La...
Downloadable Books
Thanks to Tom Holmberg (Napoleon Series Forum)
A List of Books Relating to the Peninsular War in Spain
Gary Menchen
"This bibliography of books related to the...
Downloadable Books
From Defesa Nacional, Republica Portuguesa:
In Portuguese - all downloadable as pdfs - articles cover many eras:
Empresa da Revista Militar 1849 - 1874...
US Intervention in Vietnam – an attempt to put it in context
When the Chinese were finally expelled in 1426, Vietnam enjoyed a period of independence though by no means any stability or good...
Afraid the opening post takes an extremely simplistic view of history ignoring what had gone before formal US intervention e.g. colonisation, terrorism by separatists, lobbying of US President for...
Very nice - alternative source thanks to Markus Stein see "Le Passepoil" http://www.napoleon-online.de/Dokumente/Le%20Passepoil%20Extraheft%204%20-%201932.pdf...
Uniforms
Prussia
Thanks to Markus Stein at Napoleon on Line Next to Doepler (which could only be obtained via an expensive reprint; see...
Nice to hear from you again!
Try my threads on Regimental names:
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=408864 France
http://www.twcenter.net/forums/showthread.php?t=436889 Minor...
Théophile-Malo Corret de la Tour D’Auvergne?
The First Grenadier of France
’TWAS in a certain regiment of French Grenadiers,
A touching and beautiful custom was observed many years;
Which was...
Downloadable Books
PRESENCIA DE FLAMENCOS Y VALONES EN LA MILICIA ESPAÑOLA. Nº 7 (The Flemish and Walloons Presence in the Spanish...
Downloadable Books
Thanks to Markus Stein at Napoleon Online you can download a number of publications:
Le Passepoil from 1921 to 1950 http://www.napoleon-online.de/quellen_lepassepoil.html...
You may want to take a look at Susan Rose's "Medieval Naval Warfare, 1000–1500" and Jan Glete's "Warfare at Sea, 1500–1650: Maritime Conflicts and the Transformation of Europe". They form part of...
Probably not a lot due to shipworms which bore into wood and destroy the ships - unlike in the Black sea where they cannot survive due to the lack of dissolved oxygen at the depths of the wrecks.
Try https://wiki.totalwar.com/w/Technology_Tree_(ETW) which combines units & buildings - though the civilian stuff is well down the page.
See https://www.gov.uk/foreign-travel-advice/iraq which advises against all travel to:
Anbar province
Ninewah province
Salah-Al-Din province
Diyala province
Tam’mim (Kirkuk) province
in Erbil...
Opposed, Aikanar phrased it excellently!
Uniforms
Spain
Spanish naval uniforms in Publicaciones Defensa booklets:
UNIFORMES DE LA ARMADA TRES SIGLOS DE HISTORIA (1700-2000): REGLAMENTOS DE UNIFORMIDAD Y PRENDAS DE UNIFORMES. VOL. I...
While the visor may now have gone the cords, raquettes etc are totally the wrong colour - so any real point without addressing this issue! Agree with Steph go with MoE for the complete cornucopia of...