Komend weekend, 7 en 8 mei, de jaarlijkse slag om Bourtange. Veel spektakel, rook en boem, ditmaal is het jaar 1640 aan de beurt.
Meer info hier. (klik op de link)
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Next weekend, in the small fortress town of Bourtange, the yearly re-enacted Battle takes place, this time centered around the year 1640, so it's State Troops against the Spanish.
More info here.. The website of the fortress is in English, German and Dutch, the town is in fact one big museum, and has a shop with maps and leaflets and the like.
De redacteuren van dit weblog zijn druk doende met vele zaken waardoor het bloggen helaas wat achterwege is gebleven.
Naast het bloggen gaan we namelijk ook boeken uitgeven, en met veel plezier en genoegen kan ik aankondigen dat een van die boeken de doctoraal scriptie is van Drs C.B. Nicolas over de uniformen op de Staatse vloot. Daarnaast ligt er onder meer nog een boek over de overgang van het Staatse leger naar het Bataafse Leger op stapel.
Daarnaast zijn we nog bezig met een analyse van een schilderij van Backhuysen, Chatham, en de West-Indische campagnes van 1672.
In de tussentijd, neem eens een kijkje op Valdimir's blog hier.
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The editors of this blog have been busy lately with a lot of things, ans one of those things is setting up a publishing company on military history. Several authors have granted permission to (re)publish their works, one of them being dutch military historian drs C.B. Nicolas, who has given permission te republish his master thesis on the uniforms of the States' fleet.
We are also working on an analysis of a painting by Backhyusen, the West Indies campaigns of 1672, and the dutch colours of Chatham 1667.
In the meantime, check out Vladimir's excellent weblog, featuring stunning information from the Russian archives here.
"LATE 17th CENTURY MOUNTED & DIS-MOUNTED DRAGOONS"
& HORSE GRENADIER
"planned for Summer 2011 release
Casualties, Monmouth rebels, Highlanders"
Website here!
Nederland heeft gelukkig veel musea en al die musea hebben fraaie gidsjes en achtergrondliteratuur. In een foldertje uit Oudeschans, bijgaand een mooie prent over de krijgsverrichtingen in Oost-Groningen.
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We Dutch are blessed with a lot of musea, and all those musea have guides and booklets. In the Oudeschans museum I found a real treasure, showing the 1672/1673 war in the eastern part of the Province of Groningen. The text deals with the fight of Colonel Jorman near the town of Winschoten and the surrender of the town of Oudeschans, under Munster commander Grubbe.
Link!!
"God Save Catalonia" in English!
I'm persuaded that few people would give any credit from a very start to the assertion that, during the War of Spanish Succession, English/British Infantry in the Peninsula might have been uniformed in a colour different to red. More specifically, in blue. However, as unlikely as you might judge it, this is precisely one of the most striking results obtained by recent investigations of a group of researchers, under the DIDPATRI label of Barcelona University, on the English/British military intervention in the Iberian Peninsula and the Principality of Catalonia.
International fans will be glad to be acknowledged that this book, which was originally published in Catalan language as a 144 pages paperback booklet, has just been released in English version --which shares the former one's very same format and illustrations, except for that it has been digitally published --and can be obtained for free!. English version of God Save Catalonia! can be found this location of the issuu.com website.
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