Daniel S
Researching and wargaming the wars of 1560-1660
Categories used most frequently by the blogger:
TYW 16th Century Swedish army German Armies 1631 Breitenfeld
The Swedish Army in the battle of Wittstock 1636
19 August 2018
Commander in Chief: Fieldmarshal Johan Baner The Artillery:The sources have very little to say about the number of guns present at Wittstock, except that the Swedes had more guns...
Pieter Snayers, The Battlepainter of the 17th Century
7 March 2018
Pieter Snayers was in many ways the premier battlepainter of the 30-Years War as he excelled in making large, detailed and often surprisingly accurate "birds-eye view" paintings of...
Swiss military clothing 1564-1587
17 September 2017
One question I get ask from time to time is what did the Swiss troops in the French wars of Religion (1562-1598) look like? Did they look just like the Landsknechts or did they have...
Walking the Nördlingen battlefield
28 November 2016
In the summer of 2015 I was able to spend the better part of a day exploring the Nördlingen battlefield, in particular the Albuch hill which was the critical point of the battle. ...