Rijksmuseum visit

Weapons linked with the admirals Tromp snd De Ruyter.

A visit to Amsterdam

Today your editor visited the Amsterdam Rijksmuseum and also the Amsterdam (historical) museum. In the latter I found a painting of the failed storming of Aerdenburg in 1672.

 A bit strange to find it in Amsterdam, but interesting nonetheless. Note the mixed piket/musket units for instance!

Nassau Ouwerkerk

As some of you may know, the Dutch Army Museum has moved from Delft to a new big location at Soesterberg, and is now called the National Military Museum. 

A lot of the old collection can be found on-line now, like this drawing by Dutch Military artist Hoynck van Papendrecht, showing Dutch horse guards of the Nassau-Overkerk regiment. Unfortunately it is very difficult to evaluate this picture as we know little of his research, but it's nice anyway.

Skelet uit 1672 ~ Remains of 1672?

Skelet opgegraven soldaat eenmalig te zien in Nijmegen

http://nu.nl/wetenschap/4150222/skelet-opgegraven-soldaat-eenmalig-zien-in-nijmegen.html

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In Nijmegen, the remains of probably a French soldier who died in the siege of the Knotsenburg citadel are shown to the public in one of the archeological depots.

NIeuw maandblad ~ new magazine

Van Bruno Mugnai kregen wij bericht dat zijn nieuwe tijdschrift over militaria en uniformen uit is en dat het eerste deel gratis is te downloaden! Deze aflevering heeft een artikel over het Venetië aan het einde van de 17e eeuw.

Link: http://www.historyanduniforms.com/

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New magazine on military history by the esteemed mr Bruno Mugnai from Italy. First one is free to download!

Plug bayonet

Een interessante vondst in Tiel van een Franse bayonet uit 1672

Meer over deze vondst hier










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In Tiel, a town south-east of Utrechtm a French plug bayonet has been found, dating from probably 1672. In the dutch section a link to the dutch article and an interview with the archeologist.

Eerste Munsterse Oorlog ~ First Munster War

This could be nice, a local museum has a Munster gun for an exhibition on the first Munster War!