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Niccolò Machiavelli: the father of Renaissance warfare

Jun 21, 2017 Hazel Blair 16th Century, Articles, Early Modern, Slider 0

Iain King examines the relationship between war and thought in the writings of Niccolò Machiavelli. “Men rise from one ambition to another; first they seek to secure themselves against...

The Royal Navy’s Darkest Day: Medway 1667

Jun 14, 2017 Seema Syeda 17th Century, Articles, Early Modern, Slider 0

Patrick Boniface recalls one of the most humiliating defeats in the history of Britain’s Royal Navy. To the people of Chatham the approaching ships on the River Medway must have looked impressive....

What really happened at the Battle of Culloden?

Sep 06, 2016 Hazel Blair 18th Century, Articles, Early Modern, Slider 0

Culloden has been frequently presented as a battle fought by an incompetent, ill-equipped, and badly led Jacobite army wielding swords against superior, professional Redcoats armed with...

BRIEFING ROOM: Nader Shah

Jun 09, 2016 Hazel Blair 18th Century, Articles, Briefing Room, Early Modern, Slider 1

Look at that bling – who was he? Hailed by historians as ‘a second Alexander’ and ‘the Napoleon of the East’, Nader Shah was Shah (monarch) of Persia from 1736 to 1747. He was...

After Culloden: from rebels to Redcoats

Apr 22, 2016 Hazel Blair 18th Century, Articles, Early Modern 0

Robbie MacNiven explores the fate of the Scots who survived Culloden. On a bitterly cold April afternoon in 1746, on moorland just east of the town of Inverness, the power of Scotland’s Highland...

Renaissance galleys

Mar 18, 2016 Hazel Blair 16th Century, Articles, Early Modern, Slider 0

The galleys were the most effective vessel in Mediterranean naval warfare during the 16th century. This was the Indian summer of an ancient warship that gave primacy to oars over sails and, in a...

The Dutch War of Independence

Dec 15, 2014 Emma Watts-Plumpkin Articles, Battle Maps, Early Modern, Slider 0

When the war began in 1566, Imperial Spain was the world’s greatest superpower. By the time it ended, in 1609, ‘the Spanish century’ was over. The Dutch War of Independence was...

CROSS SECTION – Inside a 16th-century galleon

Jun 18, 2013 Military History Monthly 16th Century, Articles, Early Modern 0

BACK TO THE DRAWING BOARD – COMBINATION WEAPONS

Sep 13, 2012 Military History Monthly 17th Century, Articles, Back to the Drawing Board, Early Modern 0

You would think that combining two deadly weapons to create a super-weapon would be a smart move for any warmonger. Some combination weapons, however, were simply over-ambitious monsters: clumsy,...