The League of Augsburg

The French Army

Peter is becoming a regular contributor to the blog. As well as sharing my interest in the Williamite campaigns in Ireland and letting us see his 'military history holiday' snaps he also has a very impressive War if the Spanish Succession collection.

Allied Horse

Peter and his friend Paul have a Christmas 'big bash' and I understand that 2014 featured The Battle of Ramillies 23rd May...

Wow! The Kings Life Guard of Horse Sedgemoor period

I spoke with a very nice chap called Alan at the September 2014 Partizan show in Newark. He was very interested in Warfare Miniatures cavalry models. He asked lots of questions about equipment positions and I remember, quizzed me hard on why sword scabbards sometimes appeared to sit at odd angles! I explained that was the way we had glued them on...

Ray King - Lt. General Lord Cutts commanded the allied left wing at Blenheim composed of twenty battalions and fourteen squadrons of English troops. His front line was the brigade of five battalions was commanded by General Rowe and they would lead the assault on the village of Blenheim.

Ray King - I joined the Fighting Talk Forum in February 2008 and already had in mind a Marlburian project. After reading about the famous victory at Blenheim on the 13th August 1704, decided I would build a collection of all the British regiments at this battle.

With the help of Barry Hilton and many other forum members I built a general picture of the WSS period. Next came the decision of which...

This started as the bibliography for Barry's article and extends beyond the Glorious Revolution period but we are certain that the listed books will save interested gamers a huge amount of frustrating research time. Use the comments section below to add more!

• Åberg & Göransson Karoliner. The Age of Charles XII – Only available in Swedish.

• Barthorp, Michael. Marlborough’s Army 1702-11. Osprey...