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Featured battle : Langensalza
Part of The French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars
Date : 16 April 1813 - 17 April 1813
A brilliant example of a Streifkorps raid where a force outnumbered 10 to 1 took very few casualties and severely disrupted the enemy force. They also captured 5 guns and 3 ammunition wagons.
Featured image :
HMS Victory, the Quarterdeck
A section of the Quarterdeck showing, in the foreground (and in the detail picture), a brass plaque marking the point where admiral Nelson fell during the Battle of Trafalgar to musket fire from the Redoutable. He died later, on the orlop deck with the knowledge that the battle was his. In the background can be seen one of the 12-pounder cannon arming this deck.
Gallery updated : 2022-04-04 08:33:43
Featured review :
The Decline of Empires in South Asia
Heather A Campbell
This book covers quite a niche subject in the history of what became known as "The Great Game" between the British Empire and the Russian Empire in South Asia. It focuses on the problems of imperial control over primarily Afghanistan in the years 1919-1923, and how the conflicts between the Indian government, the India Office, and the Foreign Office in London. It uses as a comparison the approaches taken during those same years in Persia, and while it covers a number of viewpoints, it largely revolves around Lord Curzon, his strong personality, and the mistakes it argues that he made because of it.
I found this book to be fascinating, and extremely thoroughly researched (the notes pages and bibliography are approximately one third of the book) but it is really quite academic and probably not for a casual reader.
Pen & Sword Military, 2022
Reviewed : 2022-11-30 20:17:25
