Andrew Sprattさんのイラストまとめ

Folks tend to think of the Norman fleet invasion of England in 1066 & the Spanish Armada invasion of 1588. However there was another plan in 1348 where French Lords stopped fighting each other & united building a fleet to take the fight to England. But the Black Death stopped it!

#OTD 1356 Battle of Poitiers, Scotsmen Archibald Douglas & his Cousin William 1st Earl of Douglas fought for the French King John against the Auld Enemy. Although captured along with King John, Archibald pretended to be a Cook's boy dressed in his Master's armour to escape ransom

Wolf of Badenoch's Tomb with location of hinge for attaching a vented battle visor or a smooth unvented jousting visor. Both visors overlap/lock at the neck giving double thickness to throat area. As lance strikes cut thru mail aventails in this area in the past. #WolfOfBadenoch

Fast Castle did reconstruction in 1987 followed corbel machicolations along as I thought it was a Hall block. But changed this when I found (in ruin painting) it led to part of a Keep which makes alot more defensive sense. So tweaked reconstruction. #FastCastle #ScottishCastles

Nesbit Moor 1355. William Ramsay of Dalhousie (Brother of Alexander, the hero of Dunbar siege) draws Lord Dacre & Lord Grey from Norham into a trap. John Halyburton of Dirleton killed in the Scots charge but English defeated with prisoners taken. Darce & Grey were ransomed.

John Knox was captured by the French at St Andrews Castle in 1547 & served as a galley slave. At one point he was in Aberlady Bay beside Luffness Castle during the Haddington siege 1548/49. If he had escaped & swam ashore then some locals would have hidden him.#JohnKnox

Some of my drawings from 1981. Was a fan of Frank Frazetta and Carlos Ezquerra as well as Space 1999, Star Wars etc.

Tantallon Castle my old watercolour of French Galley being sunk by English vessel in 1548. Tantallon's seagate gunners attempted to protect the galley. When Mary of @Marie_Guise ,Mary Queen of Scot's mother visited she gave the gunners 'drink silver' (Beer money) as a thank you.

Arkinholm 1455 Red Douglas defeat Black Douglas forces. The Black Douglas's Brother the Earl of Moray killed & beheaded. His other Brother the Earl of Ormonde was wounded but brought back to good health to also be beheaded. Heads were presented to King James II at Abercorn siege.