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Slievecoiltia is a 268m hill next to the JFK Arboretum in Co. Wexford & is part of the same overall park. It's just 8 miles from my house Unlike the JFK Arboretum you don't have to pay to enter :)
There are numerous places to park along the 3 km road that leads to the top. I visited for the first time back in September & parked here (about half way up) so I had an enjoyable 30 minute walk up to the summit. There you find a Trig point with excellent 360 degree views along with an information board pointing out visible features & a memorial to the pikemen of 1798. HBM!
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BRUGGE...
As the Grenadier Guards are standing tall, I hear a flighty sound and beat of drums.
What is coming?
A feast for the eyes⌠The Company of Pikemen & Musketeers.
It turns out that the Company of Pikemen & Musketeers are a ceremonial unit of the Honourable Artillery Company and one of only six royally warranted bodies in the UK.
Seventeenth century marches and music are provided by the Companyâs own drums and fifes.
They come to a halt in front of me, when I spot this lovely detail.
The gloved hands of a musketeer holding his drumsticks.
Bandoliers were used by musketeers to hold single measures of gun powder for their muskets, called Apostles.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
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Loreos is most known for it's cavalry, but they can bring to bear ground troops to support extendend campaigns. One of the largest garrisons is based at Northgate Reserve a facility on the North side of Stowburn mountain.
Northgate Reserve has been a bastion of Loressi defense in the Northeast. She has seen her fair share of sieges, but she has never been taken. In times of war and invasion the local population flocks to her protective bosom for safety.
Lord Stout is currently the steward of garrison and his Son Gerrick leads the Stowburn Pride, the Cavalry arm of their forces. Together they take their men out for maneuvers and training.
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Pictured above -
Stowburn men
15 Pikemen
18 Heavy Infantry
17 Longbow men
10 Crossbowmen
3 Commanders & bannermen
8 Barded Pride Riders
3 Lord Stout's Command unit
5 Aerani
Salus Men
35 Spearmen
10 Heavy Infantry
10 Command unit
DAY 7
As the Grenadier Guards are standing tall, I hear a flighty sound and beat of drums. What is coming?
A feast for the eyes⌠The Company of Pikemen & Musketeers.
It turns out that the Company of Pikemen & Musketeers are a ceremonial unit of the Honourable Artillery Company and one of only six royally warranted bodies in the UK.
Seventeenth century marches and music are provided by the Companyâs own drums and fifes.
They come to a halt in front of me, when I spot this lovely detail. The gloved hands of a musketeer holding his drumsticks.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
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This excellent sculpture in bronze of pikemen commemorates the Battle of Three Rocks which took place during the 1798 Rebellion. A party of rebels defeated an artillery column on the road between New Ross and Wexford.
English Civil War re-enactment by the 'Sealed Knot'.
The basic infantry of the Civil Wars, pikemen are normally chosen from the tallest and strongest as they needed to be able to wield a sixteen foot pike effectively. They are formed into divisions and their primary purpose is to protect against attack by cavalry. They are also used against other infantry either to hold or to gain ground. Considered to be the 'queen' of weapons, many a gentleman is found in the ranks alongside the common soldier.
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
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As the Grenadier Guards are standing tall, I hear a flighty sound and beat of drums. What is coming?
A feast for the eyes⌠The Company of Pikemen & Musketeers.
It turns out that the Company of Pikemen & Musketeers are a ceremonial unit of the Honourable Artillery Company and one of only six royally warranted bodies in the UK.
Seventeenth century marches and music are provided by the Companyâs own drums and fifes.
They come to a halt in front of me, when I spot this lovely detail.
The gloved hands of a musketeer holding his drumsticks.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. Š All rights reserved
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This is technically out of order story-wise, hopefully I can finish the first one when I get back from vacay.
I would write a gripping story, but that will have to come later, because right now there are several miles of pristine beach that require my immediate and undivided attention! ;)
TFVAHAGD!
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
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As the Grenadier Guards are standing tall, I hear a flighty sound and beat of drums. What is coming?
A feast for the eyes⌠The Company of Pikemen & Musketeers.
It turns out that the Company of Pikemen & Musketeers are a ceremonial unit of the Honourable Artillery Company and one of only six royally warranted bodies in the UK.
Seventeenth century marches and music are provided by the Companyâs own drums and fifes.
They come to a halt in front of me, when I spot this lovely detail.
The gloved hands of a musketeer holding his drumsticks.
I wish you a day full of beauty and thank you for your visit, Magda, (*_*)
For more: www.indigo2photography.com
IT IS STRICTLY FORBIDDEN (BY LAW!!!) TO USE ANY OF MY image or TEXT on websites, blogs or any other media without my explicit permission. Š All rights reserved
Brown, Burg, Pikemen, Musketeers, drumsticks, gloves, hands, uniform, Brugge, Belgium, Flanders, horizontal, colour, "Nikon D7200", "Magda indigo"
With their newly shortened pikes, the Loreesi Pikemen present a formidable wall of spikes the likes of which can frighten away the fearful and quavering enemies of the desert prince.
Yes, I did cut half of the previously super long pikes so all the critics would be happy. ;)
Just... Two... More!
TFVAHAGD!
Left to right: Crossbowman, halberdier, pikemen (2x), swordsman, hand gunner and flag-bearer
In the east of Mardier the green lowlands of the Carolean Pale can be found. A land criss-crossed by rivers, canals and ditches and dotted by uncountable windmills, testament to the marshy and wet nature of the land in centuries past.
The Caroleans, or Karlomans in their own tongue, landed on the shores of Mardier centuries ago and after a turbulent and strenuous time pledged their swords to the King of Mardier, in exchange for being allowed to settle and cultivate the moors and lowlands between the rivers Riesa in the south and the Aurelia in the north. Thus, the so-called Carolean Pale was born.
A free-spirited and diligent warrior people, the Caroleans turned the land into fertile farmland and pastures, which are now famous for its great number of sheep, the core of the Pale's textile trade that made the myriad guilds and Free Cities rich.
The independent nature of the Karlomans is evident in the political reality of their home. While there is a certain cultural homogeny, despite regional differences, the Pale is a political patchwork of independent city-states, principalities and republics - many of which are de facto ruled by powerful guilds and trade leagues, the most well-known of which are the Garvian League in the south, centered around the city of Kieg, and the Riverlands Trade League in the west whose influence stretches from Veendam to the great city of Riesmond and ultimately Essen on the river Karn, and the far-flung seaport of KarnemĂźnde.
The black raven of the Riverlands Trade League is a common sight in ports all over the world and on the banners of its soldiers, which are often rented out in a typical Carolean tradition called Soldatenhandel, or soldiers' trade.
The Caroleans are infamous and well-sought after mercenaries, or Reiseläufer in the language of the Pale. Perhaps a sediment of the warrior-spirit of their ancestors. Carolean mercenary corps are known to be primarily infantry based and heavily reliant on massed blocks of pikes, supported by handguns and crossbows to rain death upon their enemy.
Overall, the Caroleans are a mercantile yet principled people, far less conniving than the Namereens in the north and less pompous and extravagant than their Mardierian overlords. This has left others to describe the Caroleans as gloomy, stoic and sometimes even as dimwitted sheep farmers.
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A figbarf of troops showcasing some soldiers of the Riverlands Trade League in the Carolean Pale. For the BOBS prequel Tales of Old, on Eurobricks.
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
A musket is a muzzle-loaded, smoothbore firearm, fired from the shoulder. Muskets were designed for use by infantry. A soldier armed with a musket had the designation musketman or musketeer.
The musket replaced the arquebus, and was in turn replaced by the rifle (in both cases, after a long period of coexistence). The term "musket" is applied to a variety of weapons, including the long, heavy guns with matchlock, wheel lock or flint lock and loose powder fired with the gun barrel resting on a stand, and also lighter weapons with Snaphance, flintlock, or caplock and bullets using a stabilizing spin (MiniĂŠ ball), affixed with a bayonet.
16th-century troops armed with a heavy version of the arquebus called a musket were specialists supporting the arquebusiers and pikemen formations. By the start of the 18th century, a lighter version of the musket had edged out the arquebus, and the addition of the bayonet edged out the pike, and almost all infantry became musketeers.
In the 18th century, improvements in ammunition and firing methods allowed rifling to be practical for military use, and the term "rifled gun" gave way to "rifle". In the 19th century, rifled muskets (which were technically rifles, but were referred to as muskets) became common which combined the advantages of rifles and muskets. About the time of the introduction of cartridge, breechloading, and multiple rounds of ammunition just a few years later, muskets fell out of fashion.
Musket calibers ranged from 0.5 to 0.8 in (13 to 20 mm). A typical smooth bore musket firing at a single target was only accurate to about 100 to 150 yd (91 to 137 m) using the military ammunition of the day, which used a much smaller bullet than the musket bore to compensate for accumulation of ash in the barrel under battlefield conditions.
This musketeer is a member of the English Civil War Society which was founded in 1980 and is the umbrella organisation for the King's Army and the Roundhead Association. The purpose of the Society is to raise awareness of the conflict between King Charles I of England and his supporters and their opponents in Parliament and Scotland. The society does this by staging re-enactments of civil war battles and other types of living history displays across the UK. The re-enactment societies are concerned with technical details about regiments, their weapons and their clothing and way of life as well as mock battles using authentic pikes and muskets.
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
27 Axemen
33 Spearmen/Pikemen
47 Swordsmen
10 Winged Swordsmen
19 Crossbowmen
26 Longbowmen
5 Cavalry Archers / Scouts
5 Mormont Cavalry
12 Warg Lancers
2 Standard-Bearers
1 Master of Hounds
1 Commander
188 Total Units
Courage, Honor, Loyalty. For Garheim!
Double post! Finally getting back to posting, so now I'm posting twice in one day!
Anyway, back to the minifigs!
A little while ago, I was struck with the idea to build an army, though sadly I lacked enough pieces to create a formidable one, so I had to settle on a small squadron.
These forces are for my custom faction known as Davaira, a desert faction who is one of the largest empires of my world. I plan on posting some other collections of soldiers for my other factions, so you can look forward to that!
The long wait before battle commences. Living History camp at the recent Battle of Newport Pagnell 1643.
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Infantry company in the 17th century in defense
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Double post! Finally getting back to posting, so now I'm posting twice in one day!
Anyway, back to the minifigs!
A little while ago, I was struck with the idea to build an army, though sadly I lacked enough pieces to create a formidable one, so I had to settle on a small squadron.
These forces are for my custom faction known as Davaira, a desert faction who is one of the largest empires of my world. I plan on posting some other collections of soldiers for my other factions, so you can look forward to that!
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
Some mercenary reinforcements are coming to the aid of Edward IV's Yorkist army. Sent by his Burgundian allies.
Dwarves love axes and hammers, especially axes. They love single and double headed axes. Short axes and long axes. Broad axes and narrow axes.
So, way back when the Dwarven King saw how the humans were using pikes in combat and decided that he wanted a pike division as well, you can easily imagine the complaints from the Dwarf soldiers.
"This isn't an axe!
What is this, a spear??
Where's the broad head??"
So, as you can see in the photo, though they are called Pikemen, the Dwarven soldiers still use axes.
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A year of the shows and performers of the Bijou Planks Theater.
The Sealed Knot is a British historical association and charity, with many members from outside the United Kingdom, dedicated to costumed reenactment of battles and events surrounding the English Civil War.
The Sealed Knot takes its name from the original Sealed Knot, a secret association aimed at the restoration of the monarchy, although the modern incarnation has none of the political affiliations of its namesake. Apart from reenactment, it is also involved in research into the history of the Civil War, and education (at the school or college level) about the same.
The Sealed Knot was founded by Brigadier Peter Young, who was a military historian and a Second World War veteran. The idea of the Sealed Knot re-enactment group started at a dinner party with a small group of friends on 28 February 1968 following the publication of "Edgehill 1642 â the Campaign and the Battle". Within a few months it had 200 members and today has a membership of several thousand, making it the largest re-enactment society in Europe. The group is a registered charity, and has its own coat of arms.
The Sealed Knot comprises a number of regiments split into Parliamentarian, Royalist and Scots armies. The group was responsible for the first commemoration in 1971 of the Battle of Nantwich (which originally took place in 1644) and in 1973 the Sealed Knot staged the first re-enactment of the battle, which has now become an annual event at the end of January and is known as "Holly Holy Day".
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600 years ago today, the Battle of Agincourt changed history, and also provided William Shakespeare with material for one his greatest plays, Henry V. The term, âBand of Brothersâ comes directly from this famous play. King Henry V of England himself fought hand-to-hand during the battle, and even though badly outnumbered his forces crushed the French nobility, changing the political landscape of Europe at the time.
In remembrance of this event, members of WAMALUG decided to both build a huge castle-related LEGO diorama, and also launch our own history-related group called HistoryLUG. Built during the span of one of our monthly meetings, we used Magnus Laugloâs Modular Landscape System, our trees and foliage, Lady Kiannaâs buildings and all of our realistic castle-theme minifigs. This only took about four hours to complete.
From Wikipedia:
The Battle of Agincourt was a major English victory in the Hundred Years' War. The battle took place on Friday, 25 October 1415 (Saint Crispin's Day), near modern-day Azincourt, in northern France. Henry V's victory at Agincourt, against a numerically superior French army, crippled France and started a new period in the war. After the victory, Henry V married the French king's daughter, and their son, later Henry VI of England and Henry II of France, was made heir to the throne of France as well as of England.
Henry V led his troops into battle and participated in hand-to-hand fighting. The French king of the time, Charles VI, did not command the French army himself as he suffered from severe illnesses. Instead, the French were commanded by Constable Charles d'Albret, who perished during the conflict.
This battle is notable for the use of the English longbow in very large numbers, with English and Welsh archers forming most of Henry's army.
From Shakespeareâs play, King Henryâs Saint Crispinâs Day speech prior to the battle:
And Crispin Crispian shall ne'er go by,
From this day to the ending of the world,
But we in it shall be remember'd;
We few, we happy few, we band of brothers;
For he to-day that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne'er so vile,
This day shall gentle his condition:
And gentlemen in England now a-bed
Shall think themselves accursed they were not here,
And hold their manhoods cheap whiles any speaks
That fought with us upon Saint Crispin's day.
Here are some more pics beyond what I posted:
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
Bernard van Orley and Jan and William Dermoyen - Flight of the French and desertion of the Swiss pikemen - Tapestries of the battle of Pavia - 1528-1531 (or 1533) - Technique wool, silk, gold and silver thread dimensions 440 Ă 870 cm . - Capodimonte Museum, Naples
Nei sette arazzi sono raccontati gli episodi salienti della battaglia di Pavia, combattuta nel 1525 per il dominio in Italia tra le truppe del re di Francia Francesco I di Valois e quelle imperiali di Carlo V dâAsburgo. Gli arazzi, di manifattura fiamminga, sono stati realizzati a Bruxelles su disegni di Bernard van Orley, famoso pittore e cartonista di arazzi e vetrate, probabilmente tra il 1528 e il 1531 come suggerisce la presenza della sigla dellâarazziere, William Dermoyen, lungo la bordura di due dei sette arazzi.
Donati nel 1531 allâImperatore Carlo V dagli Stati Generali di Bruxelles, dopo vari passaggi ereditari, entrano a far parte grazie al legato testamentario del giovane don Carlos, figlio di Filippo II, delle collezioni di Francesco Ferdinando dâAvalos, diretto discendente dellâomonimo eroe di Pavia, morto per le ferite riportate in battaglia.
The seven tapestries tell the salient episodes of the battle of Pavia, fought in 1525 for the dominion in Italy between the troops of the French king Francis I of Valois and the imperial troops of Charles V of Habsburg. The Flemish tapestries were made in Brussels on designs by Bernard van Orley, a famous painter and cartoonist of tapestries and stained glass windows, probably between 1528 and 1531 as suggested by the presence of the tapestry maker William Dermoyen, along the border of two of the seven tapestries.
Donated in 1531 to Emperor Charles V by the General States of Brussels, after various hereditary passages, they become part thanks to the testamentary legacy of the young don Carlos, son of Philip II, of the collections of Francesco Ferdinando d'Avalos, direct descendant of the homonymous hero of Pavia, died from the injuries sustained in battle.
This picture shows Cromwell's pikemen and Musketeer's preparing themselves for a siege of the castle in 1643.In the foreground are Royalist musketeers, The castle being loyal to King Charles the First refused to surrender and a battle ensued. The castle did fall to the Parliamentarians. The owner of the castle Sir Lewis Watson was ejected , After the civil war ended in 1646 it was held in Cromwell's name until the restoration of Charles the Second in 1660 and the castle was returned to the Watson family. This reenactment was held by the Sealed Knot society on the exact spot of the original siege.
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8
Welcome to the Medieval. This is a build I made for the new Black Falcons, showing a remote outpost in which the archers are training to be the best of the best.
The build was inspired by buildings from games like Age of Empires, with lots of little details and a fully detailed interior.
Check out the full review on my YouTube channel: youtu.be/9knuB4_49w8