Destructive & Formidable by David Blackmore [Book Review]

Cover of Destructive and Formidable by David Blackmore

Destructive and Formidable: British Infantry Firepower 1642 – 1765 by David John Blackmore My rating: 5 of 5 stars Destructive and Formidable looks at British infantry doctrine using period sources from the British Civil Wars of the seventeenth century up to just before the American War of Independence. If anything…

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1689 Reading List

So far this half a shelf is my 1689 reading list for the proposed megagame about the Glorious Revolution.  I’ve read some of this already, and marked up the interesting bits. Notably Bonnie Dundee and the Bruce Lenman books as well as Glencoe by John Sadler which sets the scene for…

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