Military Muddling

Chestnut Lodge Wargames Group

I’ll Just Go Back One More Chapter: the pitfalls of historical research

At university I wrote an essay about the Silver Bullion crisis in 17th Century Spain. As I did my research I kept on finding yet another fact or event that intrigued me. So I started going back through my “set” books to yet another earlier chapter. Eventually I found myself reading about Ferdinand and Isabella […]

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Somme Centenary – a commentary on the battle

Today is the centenary of the first infantry attacks in the Battle of the Somme in 1916. Zero Hour was 07:30, and at that point the whistles blew and the infantry began their advance across no-man’s land towards the German trenches. The infantry attack was preceded by over a week’s artillery bombardment of one and […]

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