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Every now and again, a collection built up over a lifetime comes up for sale at auction. Such is the case at the current auction of Mullens in Laurel Park, Co Wicklow. The so-called Collector’s ...
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Iron Maiden singer Bruce Dickinson competed in a fencing competition in France over the weekend, where he placed 13th out of 31.
As the cavalry raided the now-empty camp, a soldier stole the painted buffalo hide out of a tipi. And thus the beloved hide, and the story it told, began its journey away from its people.
So you'll sometimes get neat Napoleonic-looking battle lines of troops, but eventually battles will collapse into chaotic positioning-based melees as you outfox the enemy.
That being said, armored cavalry persisted because some emerging peoples, such as Bulgarians, Avars, Serbs, Alans, Lithuanians, or Khazars, copied the Byzantine model—not only in concept and weaponry ...
This failure of the infantry was matched later in the afternoon by a failure of the cavalry, which charged to exploit a supposed gap in the allied center-right. The famous massed cavalry charge shows ...
Dr. Andrew Bamford completed a Ph.D. at the University of Leeds in 2009 that looked at the operation of the British Army’s regimental system during the Napoleonic Wars. He has subsequently written ...
The main thrust of the Napoleonic Wars of 1803 to 1815 may have been to advance the First French Empire, but the undercard was all about military style.
Defending his Napoleon from grumbles caused by early rumors of historical inaccuracy, director Ridley Scott snapped that “when I have issues with historians, I ask: ‘Excuse me, mate, were you ...
The film’s varying attitude toward history may turn away some history buffs, but “Napoleon” is, overall, a movie that successfully differentiates itself from other historical dramas.