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@Napoleonic_Imp @mcribbHistory @RobbieMacNiven @AndrewBamford10 @Peter_Molloy_ @AndyDormann Tho I believe last time I suggested putting you in a Russian uniform, ( I forget why) you said something like, ‘it may look a little strange’ to which I said, ‘there’s always the Bashkirs if you cannot bear to flirt with anachronisms.

I felt like giving a shoutout to @hack_history and all the great people involved. You have “animated” my life, literally.

Find the story below in @Smith_Design cartoons.

That we have the journal accounts of two senior Engineer officers for the Siege of Burgos, makes an analysis of this siege a fascinating & quite enjoyable thing to attempt. One always feels confident when the engineers are around.

‘It is impossible for me to determine when & how they will end … When a single drop [of blood] is drawn, the most prophetic spirit will not, in my opinion, be able to to determine when it will cease flowing’
Not from 1860 USA, it’s Gen Lincoln writing of Shay’s Rebellion 1786-87

Madre Patria by Jorge González. What a striking image!

I came for the history, and stayed for the comics … lol.
A million downloads for @hack_history, I doff my hat effusively to @churchill_alex @WW2girl1944 @ZwhiteHistory and the whole team of podcasting heroes!

I have the honour to report to the esteemed representative @aranda_olivier & to @FalornGrimm that on Total War, I with 12 sail of the line, engaged a British fleet under @ZwhiteHistory of about 9-10 sail, of which four were of no less than 120 guns, & achieved a complete victory.

‘no Sikh offered to submit & no disciple of Guru Gobind Singh asked for quarter. They everywhere showed a front to the victors ... many rushed singly forth to meet assured death ... The victors looked with stolid wonderment upon the ... courage of the vanquished.’ J Cunningham

‘when some of our men plunged their bayonets into the Sikhs, they held them fast by the sockets with their left hands, and cut our men’s heads off with their massive tulwars, with deep regret I saw several of my comrades thus killed.’ Pvt Baldwin 9th Rgt of Foot.