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Battle of Enzheim (Ensheim or Entzheim), (October 4, 1674)

Austria Battle France Wargame 3 Min Read

Turenne marching with his troops. The Battle of Enzheim was fought on 4 October 1674 near Entzheim in present-day Alsace between the French Royal Army under the command of the Vicomte de Turenne on one side and Imperial Army of the Holy Roman Empire on the other side during the Franco-Dutch War. Despite the Holy Roman Empire’s numerical superiority, it…

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Potsdam Giants by Name!

The Potsdam Giants was the Prussian infantry regiment No 6, composed of taller-than-average soldiers. The regiment was founded in 1675 and dissolved in 1806 after the Prussian defeat against Napoleon. Throughout the reign of the Prussian king Friedrich Wilhelm I of Prussia (1688–1740) the unit was known as the “Potsdamer…

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Battle of Sekhmen [Sekmen] (1875 BC)

Hereditary archers and menfat “shock troops” were supported by conscripts. The centre of the battle line would consist of massed close fighters in columns or deep lines, supported by massed archer formations. Archers and close combat troops formed up in separate bodies. The archers were to discharge a heavy volume…

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Battle of Fraustadt

Carl Gustaf Rehnskiöld (6 August 1651 – 29 January 1722) Marshal Johann Matthias von der Schulenburg (1661-1747) King Charles XI’s Polish campaign had been highly successful, and after taking Warsaw in 1704, Charles decided to take out Saxony, so he gave a small detachment of 3,700 infantry of the line…

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French And Spanish Admirals – Trafalgar Campaign

Spanish Admiral Federico Gravina at Trafalgar. French and Spanish admirals who held key appointments during the Trafalgar campaign. Barham’s ‘opposite number’ was the much younger Denis Decrès. Born of a noble family in 1761, he joined the French Navy at the relatively late age of 18. As a junior officer…

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Second Breitenfeld, (November 2, 1642)

Lennart Torstenson’s military campaign in 1642. LINK Torstensson’s War (1643-1645). In 1643 Christian IV of Denmark contemplated re-entering the German war, this time in alliance with the Habsburgs. As that would seriously jeopardize the Swedish strategic position Oxenstierna decided to pre-empt: he recalled Lennart Torstensson and the main Swedish Army…

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The loss of Prince of Wales and Repulse

HMS Repulse by Jaap Pluimgraaff Prince of Wales under Attack The Japanese strategists had a…