tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.comments2023-08-13T14:40:48.207+01:00Military History Blog on the WebJohn Rickardhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04451374395100850830noreply@blogger.comBlogger16125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-61313501728381098662015-04-03T16:15:32.258+01:002015-04-03T16:15:32.258+01:00I love your site. Not all of it is up my military...I love your site. Not all of it is up my military alley, so to speak, but a lot is. TYVM.The Old Manhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09854776544931267722noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-58966434699979564722014-06-09T23:34:15.641+01:002014-06-09T23:34:15.641+01:00I came across a photo of the Curtiss XBT-4 in my d...I came across a photo of the Curtiss XBT-4 in my dad's books today. It was taken at the Lake Placid Airport and it is in a line of other airplanes. "The backside of the photo states: U.S. Army planes drawn on the line at Lake Placid Airport during the air circus."Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-31232986234322302152013-07-05T07:59:05.779+01:002013-07-05T07:59:05.779+01:00We've had this comment several times, and all ...We've had this comment several times, and all but a handful of cases its turned out to be the difference between US and UK English causing the confusion. Our site uses UK English only.John Rickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451374395100850830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-26038823046716173122012-02-10T16:43:20.066+00:002012-02-10T16:43:20.066+00:00naturally like your web site however you have to t...<b>naturally like your web site however you have to test the spelling on quite a few of your posts. A number of them are rife with spelling issues and I in finding it very troublesome to tell the reality on the other hand I'll certainly come back again.</b><br><a href="https://sites.google.com/a/pricecompare.webstunes.tk/where-to-buy-keepsake-frames-keepsakes-baby-deals/discount-danforth-federal-spruce-frame" rel="nofollow">Danforth Federal Spruce Frame</a>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-90557350022242083852011-10-24T03:28:08.127+01:002011-10-24T03:28:08.127+01:00This will be a great story to consider and I adore...This will be a great story to consider and I adore stories about <br /><a href="http://worldwar1-2.com/" rel="nofollow">world war 2</a> and her collection will be a great tool to reminisce the second world war.siryoz0https://www.blogger.com/profile/07805227020638142542noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-77727358276864521252010-12-04T01:54:00.366+00:002010-12-04T01:54:00.366+00:00The downfall of Napoleon. The nation’s people win ...The downfall of Napoleon. The nation’s people win or lose wars. The weight of a nation’s people can rally or take down a military or government. A Prussian General, Carl Von Clausewitz had these same ideas. He argued that war differed from other political expression in that it is produced and governed by three dominant tendencies know as the “paradoxical trinity”. It is composed of the elements of primordial violence, hatred, and enmity which mainly concern the people. The second is probability and chance which the army and commander must contend with. Thirdly is the element of subordination, which says that war is subordinate to political polices which the government controls. In order for success of any war, all three elements need to maintain a balance. Napoleon Bonaparte failed to keep the balance of these three magnets in his war with Spain. He lost the war in Spain, because he failed to take in account the element of the Spanish people. Napoleon’s failure of the ideals of the people of Spain, the people’s social classes, and guerrilla actions used by the people on the French caused his demise.<br /> The struggle that Napoleon failed at was balancing the struggle of ideals between French revolutionary passion and the religious conviction with the Spanish. The majority of Spaniards shared a passionate dedication to Catholicism and passionate dismissal of the revolutionary French. The Spanish priests encouraged the peasants to believe that the French would change their beliefs and religion, and portray the French as unholy and unwholesome. The priests maintained the power and influential base on the rural population, and because of this it started the settings for the movement against the French. <br /> In Spain they were two completely different social classes. Spanish liberals in the towns accepted French rule because they associated it with liberal reform and embraced the enlightened views and rule. Peasants in the countryside rejected French rule and had an antagonism toward the Spanish liberals in the towns. French allied itself with the Spanish urban liberals and the British allied itself with the rural peasants. The two social classes of Spain were now aligned with two different world powers, with a major war to come on Spanish soil.<br /> Napoleon’s army was the best force on force army and was about to conquer the European continent until the fight came to Spain. Wellington by now along with the other allies could not beat the French, but they were learning and adapting. The allies needed and edge and they found it with the Spanish peasants. Wellington needed to break down the French Army by imposing a regular and irregular conflict against him. He would use Allied conventional forces to fight the French face to face and use the Spanish peasants to attack using irregular warfare. In essence the peasants became a guerilla force that Wellington could use in conjunction with his force to cause Napoleon to fight on two fronts. This guerilla warfare was the edge that the Allies needed in defeating Napoleon. This technique used by Wellington and the peasants eventually defeated and drove out the French, and the beginning of the end for Napoleon and the French Army.<br /> Napoleon failed to use Clausewitz’s Paradoxical Trinity by balancing the magnet of people with the other two. Napoleon lost the war in Spain, because he failed to take in account the ideals of the Spanish people, their social classes, and the Spanish guerrilla actions. The French and Spanish people needed to rally by hatred, passion, or violence for France to have won the war. The French had the passion, the Spanish rural population had the hatred and the British Army along with the Spanish guerillas had the violence. Napoleon had the biggest and best army in Europe, and was defeated by the rural population in Spain. It doesn’t matter how much money or men you have if you don’t have the passion in your ideals to make war.Chad Mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251429552330451911noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-40336925287462082862007-12-29T01:06:00.000+00:002007-12-29T01:06:00.000+00:00I am planning a trip to Narvik and on my (Blog I h...I am planning a trip to Narvik and on my (<A HREF="http://www.expeditions.wprzybylski.eu/" REL="nofollow">Blog</A> I have published map showing some of the most important places connected to this battle - map is in constant development.Wojciech Przybylskihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16901453381946123469noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-69462524578279284532007-09-02T21:45:00.000+01:002007-09-02T21:45:00.000+01:00I have a figure of 56 myself, out of a total of 1,...I have a figure of 56 myself, out of a total of 1,253 British Generals of the Western Front, so around 4% were killed, compared to an average in the army of 10%.<BR/><BR/>This compared to 1,008 General of the American Civil War, of whom 150 or so were killed in action, or 15%. For good reasons First WOrld War generals tended to spend their time further back from the front that in earlier wars, thus suffering proportionally fewer casualties. Relatively few might be a more accurate phrase I supposeJohn Rickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451374395100850830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-27271213597809368442007-09-02T01:44:00.000+01:002007-09-02T01:44:00.000+01:00Re. your commment that "Brigadier General Charles ...Re. your commment that "Brigadier General Charles FitzClarence, VC, was one of the few senior British officers to be killed in action during the First World War." <BR/>Few? In fact, 53 British Brigadier Generals were killed in action during<BR/>the First World War.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-43631715141402157412007-02-20T17:54:00.000+00:002007-02-20T17:54:00.000+00:00Oops! Thanks for pointing that out - just correcti...Oops! Thanks for pointing that out - just correcting it now.John Rickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451374395100850830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-67332414537940260312007-02-14T17:39:00.000+00:002007-02-14T17:39:00.000+00:00I'm thinking you meant Richard Heron Anderson vice...I'm thinking you meant Richard Heron Anderson vice Robert.Brian Downeyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10208140752257451676noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-45556231962384355922007-01-15T15:11:00.000+00:002007-01-15T15:11:00.000+00:00Read the article to find out!!
(publicity seeking...Read the article to find out!!<br /><br />(publicity seeking for one, lost his entire command for another..)John Rickardhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04451374395100850830noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-1167062057745269362006-12-25T15:54:00.000+00:002006-12-25T15:54:00.000+00:00I have an original funeral notice for Gen. John Fr...I have an original funeral notice for Gen. John Franklin Farnsworth who led a cavalry brigade in the Army of the Potomac. (Died July 14, 1897). Looking for a buyer.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-1160688023479022102006-10-12T22:20:00.000+01:002006-10-12T22:20:00.000+01:00What failings?What failings?Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-1148076162199073342006-05-19T23:02:00.000+01:002006-05-19T23:02:00.000+01:00You can buy a bess at www.militaryheritage.com "th...You can buy a bess at www.militaryheritage.com <BR/><BR/>"these ones you have to vent yourself but are of really high quality.<BR/><BR/>Also www.loyalistarms.freeservers.com<BR/><BR/>they have some nice stuff my 1 st model bess kit acometh from them as we speakParzifal Odinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12231457286348602126noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7072498.post-1147832594085717432006-05-17T03:23:00.000+01:002006-05-17T03:23:00.000+01:00If you think about it, The Brown Bess is the most ...If you think about it, The Brown Bess is the most important firearm in human history "ak 47 maybe a close 2nd"<BR/>No fire arm took as much land ,defeated as many enemies , and was used for so long .It literally changed the world.<BR/>Were talking from the 1720s TO THE LATE 1850S "but with a percussion conversion."<BR/><BR/>I own and shoot a repro 3rd model carbine And soon will have me a kit 1st model..<BR/><BR/>great relyable "if you do your part"and robust..<BR/><BR/>As you can tell I really have a love on for BESS!!<BR/><BR/>cheersParzifal Odinsonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12231457286348602126noreply@blogger.com