Saturday, 18 February 2012

SMS Emden vs. HMS Sydney ... 09:30 hrs, 9 November 1914

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Reports indicate that HMS Sydney has limped back into Australian territorial waters several days after intercepting the Kaiser's light c...
Thursday, 12 January 2012

Work on the Dutch–Portuguese war (1602–1663) begins

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My last Colonial project (Egypt 1882) is languishing, but out of the blue has come something new! I've been looking at the Grumpy Miniat...
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Tuesday, 3 January 2012

Battle of Brentford, 12 November 1642

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After Edgehill, Prince Rupert swept down the Thames Valley with the aim of taking the capital – the prospect of which caused a “great stir“ ...
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Friday, 2 December 2011

Edgehill, Sunday, 23 October 1642

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One month after the opening skirmish at Powick Bridge, King Charles' army found itself facing a Parliamentarian army under Robert Devere...
Monday, 14 November 2011

Powick Bridge, 23 September 1642

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In  what is popularly characterised as the opening 'battle' of the English Civil Wars, the battle of Powick Bridge  saw about 1000 R...
Sunday, 13 November 2011

1643 ... somewhere in the west country (a solo DBA encounter)

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In late summer 1643, a sizeable force of Sir Ralph Hopton's army surprise Waller's Parliamentarians near a hamlet in Somerset. The R...
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Saturday, 15 October 2011

Somewhere near Pevensey, 14 October 1066

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One of my earliest projects when I began playing DBA was to paint up the armies for a 1066 campaign. Well, in 2011 I finally finished the No...