📜 Ten Days Campaign, 3 August 1831 🇳🇱 Turnhout falls without a fight. Belgian general Niellon performs only a token two hour defence before pulling back, handing the Dutch their first major city. A lot of activity is occurring along the Scheldt.
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📜 Ten Days Campaign, 2 August 1831 🇧🇪 The sudden invasion catches the Belgians completely off guard. King Leopold I is in Liège when he receives notice of Chassé's ultimatum. The King is furious at his cabinet's failure to put the country in a state of defence. 🧵 1/4
📜 Ten Days Campaign, 2 August 1831 🇳🇱 Diplomacy ended at dawn. The Dutch invasion begins. Planning immediately meets reality. The Ten Days Campaign has begun. 🧵 1/7
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Wargames, Soldiers & Strategy magazine@wssmagazine.bsky.social · 4d agoThe Great Wargaming Survey 2026 is live. Share your experiences, explore new questions, and get a discount coupon and free STL for participating. https://bit.ly/4w2xno0 #wargaming And don't forget to take the www.greatwargamingsurvey.com this month!
Testing the setup for a #ChainofCommand scenario to play on the weekend of 2/3 October at the Airborne Museum in Oosterbeek. With @clogfather.bsky.social and @redandloud.bsky.social. Poles at Driel from the 2023 Lard Magazine #SpreadTheLard
📜Ten Days Campaign, 1 August 1831 🇳🇱 During the night, the Prince of Orange arrives at his headquarters in Breda. Orders are immediately dispatched for the movement on the 2nd. The operation begins. The army receives the signal it has awaited: “Voorwaarts!”. 1/7
📜Ten Days Campaign, 29 July 1831 🇧🇪 85 kilometres. Five days. Simple. That was the Dutch plan to take Brussels before any major power could interfere. Then reports arrived from Aachen claiming southern Belgium might rise up for the House of Orange, and the plan doubled in length. 1/10
📜Ten Days Campaign, 31 July 1831 🇳🇱 After the fighting in Brussels 1830, the Dutch army was disintegrating. Southern soldiers deserted. Garrisons collapsed. Troops were demoralised. The man ordered to rebuild it? Van Geen. A southerner. 🧵 1/7
📜Ten Days Campaign, 30 July 1831 🇧🇪 Belgium declared independence in 1830 without a national army. Not because they forgot. Many of Belgium's political leaders believed a large standing army was expensive, unnecessary and dangerous to liberty. 1/7
Saw Odyssee yesterday. Mixed feelings (which coincide to some extent with those of Emily Wilson, although I know little about the Homer version). Pattinson was a fresh breath in the movie, but was I the only one to immediately think of Murdoc from Gorillaz?
On days when you feel like a wilting garden, gather yourself, roll up your lawn. bouquet your flowers embrace your weeds. You are a wild thing, playing at being tame. You are rich with life beneath the surface. You are soil & insect & root ~D Atta #AlphabetChallenge #WeekDForDark #ElkeDagEenInsect
📜Ten Days Campaign, 26 July 1831 🇳🇱 Between them, the Dutch generals had survived Wagram, Waterloo, a two-month siege, colonial warfare in the East Indies, and fought under many regimes. None of them were strangers to complicated wars. Belgium would be just another.
For the last few years many of you have followed the story of Sgt Jules Destrigneville through the letters & photographs. Today, the first part of a 3 part series of videos. It's the story of one ordinary French soldier, told in his own words. youtu.be/Jwqtjq2_Li8?si…
A Soldier's War: Champagne to Verdun | Part One (1915)
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This very short video www.youtube.com/watch?v=xbhw... is an excellent summary by @diplostrats.bsky.social of the megagame format.
What is a Megagame?
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A short version of the arguments in my The Cutting-Off Way are now out as an article in the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Military History, "Native American Warfare in Eastern North America." Includes new case studies not found in the book! doi.org/10.1093/9780...
Native American Warfare in Eastern North America, 1500–1800
Abstract. The limits of our sources on Native American warfare mandate a structural analysis that begins with the basics of Native American subsistence sys
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"The fight over how we remember the Civil War...is being fought quietly and persistently by people doing their jobs, telling their students the truth, and refusing to look away from the complexity of what actually happened. #CivilWarMemory 🗃️ kevinmlevin.substack.com/p/still-will...
Still Willing To Tell the Truth, Whatever the Cost
Teachers, rangers, and historians holding the line on American memory
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You wait ages for serious work on the Tunisian campaign and then three come along. Also good to see Sam Wallace got his PhD into book form. Three very different approaches.
What painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favourite. The one that lingered. Dog Planet by artist Daniel Richter. When I walked into the exhibition this one smacked me right in the face. Came back the next day
Nellkyn@nellkyn.bsky.social · 3w agoWhat painting, photograph, sculpture, or piece of visual art has stayed with you long after you first saw it? Not necessarily your favourite. The one that lingered. Nighthawks by artist Edward Hopper. I was lucky enough to see it when it was in London a number of years ago now.
“2 fevrier j’ai ü 10 songes je me rapille j’ai donné un coup de poingt à paris d’auzon” (2 february I had 10 dreams I remember I punched [the mayor of auzon] monsieur Paris) im meant to be doing other things today but all i *want* to do is decipher the dream diaries of 2 rural laborers from 1855
Vandaag is het 15 jaar geleden dat ik begon aan de #MainzerBeobachter. Dat vier ik met vijftien blogjes over vijftien museumvoorwerpen uit de vijftien Nederlandstalige provincies in Nederland en België. Deel 12: een christelijk ogende helm uit de Maas. mainzerbeobachter.com/2026/07/14/l...
On 14th July 1995 Bosnian Serbs began their systematic execution of the men held in Bratunac, burying the dead in mass graves near the killing sites. The same day the column of Bosniacs heading to Tuzla was ambushed by Bosnian Serbs. #Genocide
"War is merely the continuation of commercial branding by other means..." - Giulio Douhet
13th July 1995: The mass killing of unarmed Muslim men by Bosnian Serbs began on 13th July. At least 8000 men were murdered. 3000 were shot in the fields, others were trapped in warehouses, playgrounds & farms & were killed in their thousands with machine guns and grenades. #Genocide 1/3
12th July 1995, Srebrenica. The killings begin. #Genocide The Dutch UN Potocari camp was completely overcrowded. Shooting continued throughout the Srebrenica pocket and Bosnian Serb commander Ratko Mladic warned that unless Srebrenica surrendered the pocket would be shelled into submission. 1/6
Portrait of a young lady; beautiful and elegant later work (c. 1560) by Catharina van Hemessen of Antwerp, whose day is today.
