The League of Augsburg
Guest post: Williamite Wars in Ireland Part 1 - The Walls
Friend of the Blog Peter A takes us with him on part one of his three part odyssey following the Williamite Wars in Ireland - The Walls, the River and the Fort – wanderings in ancient Ireland
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| Arms of Cork - a safe harbour for ships |
1. This report is in 3 parts. First, the siege and taking of Cork – the breach and destruction of its medieval walls - which were unfit to resist determined late 17t...
Wandering Around Ireland, Part II
Clarence Harrison - A little after noon, Barry, Bob, and I rolled into Londonderry proper. We passed through the walls at Ferryquay Gate and climbed a set of stone steps to the top of the wall in a drizzling rain.
The walls of Londonderry were built in 1613-18 and the entire circuit remains intact today. Of course there have been repairs and the original gates were enlarged to allow for modern...
The walls of Londonderry were built in 1613-18 and the entire circuit remains intact today. Of course there have been repairs and the original gates were enlarged to allow for modern...
Wandering Around Ireland, Part I
Clarence Harrison - Now that the dust has settled and I'm back in some sort of routine, I've had time to sort through my pics and make some notes on my trip. Of course the first few days were spent in Dumphries at the the LoA Weekender. I'm going to leave the details of the games to Mr. Hilton as I was busy killing Jacobite horses (yes, I wasplaying on the Jacobite side) and like the commanders of...
Lots to blog about.. did we REALLY do that?
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| New Dutch West India Company forces attack English Creoles on Jamaica |
Well, Clarence is on his flight west, Bob is back studying 18 wheelers and I am back at LoA HQ trying to make sense of the last seven days. We've manage to cram a lot into a week. Five wargames, 10 players, three theatres, an 860 miles road trip, eight battlefields and lots of walking.
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| Captured from whom? French Militia? We think... |
William of Orange - Warfare Miniatures by Mark Allen
Mark Allen was one of the main influences on my obsession with the period which has given its name to this Blog. I drooled over Mark's inspirational figures and games photographed so carefully by Duncan Macfarlane as far back as 1991 when they were a staple of Wargames Illustrated. His series on the armies of the period is still a go to resource for me and I am certain, many others.
It therefore...
The Battle of Aughrim 1691-2016 325th Anniversary
I am delighted to feature a post by Alan Larsen explaining the role his Re-enactor group 'The Troop' played in the commendable commemorative event which took place in the Summer of 2016.
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| Photo: John Finnerty (By permission) |
As many readers will know, Aughrim tends to be the forgotten major action of the Williamite Wars in Ireland. This is quite remarkable given that it was a larger and more decisive...
The Battle of Aughrim 1691-2016 325th Anniversary
I am delighted to feature a post by Alan Larsen explaining the role his Re-enactor group 'The Troop' played in the commendable commemorative event which took place in the Summer of 2016.
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| Photo: John Finnerty (By permission) |
As many readers will know, Aughrim tends to be the forgotten major action of the Williamite Wars in Ireland. This is quite remarkable given that it was a larger and more decisive...
Snowstorm? Brainstorm? Fraudstadt.. League of Augsburg style
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| Looking from the Swedish right towards the Russian positions |
I honestly thought I had blogged our Fraustadt refight(s). Clearly I had not! A request to know more on another thread has prompted me to go to the archive and pull out some pix and scour my memory for what actually happened on the day (s) we ran this in Dumfries two or three years back.
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| The Swedish Army from its left wing looking long the... |
The Warp Factor
A knee jerk response? I do hope not!
This piece picks around in the delicate minefield of borderline xenophobia. It has fermented through a series of conversations and exchanges which have on occasion provoked me to address the keyboard in an earnest fashion. Ironically the most recent was a conversation about the great British victory of Waterloo (not this Blog's core period but the straw which...
This piece picks around in the delicate minefield of borderline xenophobia. It has fermented through a series of conversations and exchanges which have on occasion provoked me to address the keyboard in an earnest fashion. Ironically the most recent was a conversation about the great British victory of Waterloo (not this Blog's core period but the straw which...
Eclectic Holiday post #2 The Siege of Constantinople
Blog Die Hards - stick with this post and think.. 1683! The Turks of that period were not so different from those featured here in the 1453 Siege of Constantinople.
I have visited Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul several times and on one trip managed to spend an...
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| Original and reconstructed walls of Constantinople on the European shore |
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| Reconstructed section - it runs for perhaps a mile or more |
I have visited Byzantium/Constantinople/Istanbul several times and on one trip managed to spend an...
Eclectic Holiday post #1 AFVs I have known
Well, it is the holiday season and I do have a lot of pictures in my archive so I thought I would share some of those as wargamers often like to see the real thing as well as toys.
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| Sherman with long 75 - Utah Beach, Normandie - taken 2016 |
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| British Universal Carrier - Caen, Normandie - taken in 2008 |
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| M3 Half track - D Day Museum near Omaha Beach - taken 2016 |
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| Non penetrating hits on Panther glacis -... |
Battle for Britain Part 7 - Players enter stage left
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| von Tettau, Marlborough and Tollemache left, Sarsfield, Hamilton and Berwick on the right |
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| The master view campaign positional map - players saw a limited view of this |
Over the...