Ancient:
• Military Book Review the Bronze Lie: Shattering the Myth of Spartan Warrior Supremacy https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2259
• The Ancient Roman Harshness | Warspot.net https://warspot.net/489-the-ancient-roman-harshness
Medieval:
Medieval:
• The 'Second' War of Independence: Civil War and More With Iain MacInnes - Medievalists.net https://www.medievalists.net/2021/12/the-second-war-of-independence-civil-war-and-more-wit...
Early Modern:
• Military Book Review History of the British Army, 17141783: An Institutional History https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2240
Ancient:
• Which Greeks in the Western Way of War? | RealClearDefense https://www.realcleardefense.com/2021/10/26/which_greeks_in_the_western_way_of_war_800620....
Medieval:
Ancient:
• A Roman Soldiers Medical Record | Warspot.net https://warspot.net/416-a-roman-soldier-s-medical-record
• Military Book Review Military History of Late Rome 284-361 https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2203
Medieval:
Ancient:
• Xi Jinping Discussed the Thucydides Trap With Malcolm Turnbull, Revealing His View of the World Today - Abc News https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-07-06/prime-minister-turnbull-xi-jinping-discuss-the-trap...
Medieval:
• Battling the Samurai Myths: An Interview With Historian Karl Friday | Budo Japan https://budojapan.com/kenjutsu/20210714kf/
Ancient:
• Breaking Up Is Hard to Do: Applying an Overlooked Analogy to U.S.-China Competition https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2021/6/28/breaking-up-is-hard-to-do
Medieval:
Ancient:
• Dr. Michael J. Taylor on Twitter: "Okay, Some Tentative Thoughts on Incentives to Set-Piece Battle in the Roman Empire. One Thing That Is Clear Is That the Roman Army Fights Far Fewer Pitched Battles in the Imperial Period." / Twitter https://twitter.com/DrMichaelJTayl1/status/1389757288878063619
Ancient:
• Military Book Review Sage and Emperor: Plutarch, Greek Intellectuals, and Roman Power in the Time of Trajan (98117 A.d.) https://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/2171
• Plague and the End of Antiquity | Warspot.net https://warspot.net/362-plague-and-the-end-of-antiquity
Medieval:
This is the 350th issue of the Military History Digest, which has been going since November 2007. The first one (then called the "Military History Weblog Digest") is here:
https://lists.h-net.org/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-war&month=0711&week=d&msg=F0aj9...
As always, suggestions for sites to follow or posts to include are always welcome.
Ancient:
As always, suggestions for sites to follow are welcome for the Military History Digest.
Medieval:
• What Was the Zanj Rebellion? | Jstor Daily https://daily.jstor.org/what-was-the-zanj-rebellion/
Early Modern:
Medieval:
• Prostrating Wall and Artillery Balls: A Re-Evaluation of the 1188 Siege of Sahyun / Saone - Medievalists.net https://www.medievalists.net/2021/01/1188-siege-sahyun-saone/
18th Century (to 1815):
18th Century (to 1815):
• Charles Lee’s Debacle at Monmouth Inside the Battlefield Blunder That Ended the Career of One of Washingtons Top Generals MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2021/01/13/charles-lees-debacle-at-monmouth-inside-the-batt...
Ancient:
• War in the Time of Neanderthals: How Our Species Battled for Supremacy for Over 100,000 Years https://theconversation.com/war-in-the-time-of-neanderthals-how-our-species-battled-for-su...
Medieval:
Ancient:
• A History of Rome in Paintings: 12 Civil War the Eclectic Light Company https://eclecticlight.co/2020/10/27/a-history-of-rome-in-paintings-12-civil-war/
Medieval:
• What Happened to the Corpses on the Medieval Battlefield? - Medievalists.net https://www.medievalists.net/2020/10/corpses-medieval-battlefield/
Early Modern:
Ancient:
• A History of Rome in Paintings: 6 War With the Tuscans, and Defending the Bridge the Eclectic Light Company https://eclecticlight.co/2020/09/15/a-history-of-rome-in-paintings-6-war-with-the-tuscans-...
Ancient:
• Life in Caesars Legions What Was It Like to Serve in the Roman Army in the First Century Bc? - MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2020/08/23/life-in-caesars-legions-what-was-it-like-to-serv...
Civil War
Ancient:
• 17.05.09, Sarantis, Justinian's Balkan Wars | the Medieval Review https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/23639
Civil War
Medieval:
• The Norman Conquest Didnt Change Ordinary Peoples Lives Very Much | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/archaeologists-study-life-in-oxford-before-and-aft...
18th Century (to 1815):
Ancient:
• The Volcano That Caused Famines in Ancient Rome? It Was in Alaska | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/06/an-alaskan-volcano-may-have-hastened-the-fall-of-t...
Early Modern:
Medieval:
• 17.02.21, Davies, John a., Eds., Et Al., Castles and the Anglo-Norman World | the Medieval Review https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/23405
• 17.04.06 , Bailey and Giles, Eds., Charlemagne and His Legend in Early Spanish Literature and Historiography | the Medieval Review https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/23515
Medieval:
• Archaeologists May Have Found William Wallaces Hidden Fortress | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/05/archaeologists-may-have-found-william-wallaces-hid...
Now with added military history reviews!
Medieval:
•17.02.10 , Forgeng, Trans., the Book of Horsemanship by Duarte I of Portugal | the Medieval Review https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/23354
•18.09.25, Bates, William the Conqueror | the Medieval Review https://scholarworks.iu.edu/journals/index.php/tmr/article/view/25660
Early Modern:
Ancient:
• What Compelled the Roman Way of Warfare? #Reviewing Killing for the Republic https://thestrategybridge.org/the-bridge/2020/3/25/-what-compelled-the-roman-way-of-warfar...
18th Century (to 1815):
Medieval:
• The Invisible Hand of Conquest How Smallpox Defeated Armies, Toppled Empires & Changed History - MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2020/03/14/the-invisible-hand-of-conquest-how-smallpox-defe...
First World War:
Medieval:
•The Battle of Murten: The Invasion of Charles the Bold and the Survival of the Swiss States - Medievalists.net https://www.medievalists.net/2020/02/the-battle-of-murten-the-invasion-of-charles-the-bold...
Early Modern:
•George IIIs Collection of Military Maps https://militarymaps.rct.uk/
18th Century (to 1815):
Ancient:
•Blog - the Spatha - Osprey Publishing https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/The_Spatha/
•Collections: The Fremen Mirage, Part I: War at the Dawn of Civilization a Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry https://acoup.blog/2020/01/17/collections-the-fremen-mirage-part-i-war-at-the-dawn-of-civi...
1815-1861:
Medieval:
• Charlotte De Lusignan: A Fighting Queen - Medievalists.net https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/charlotte-de-lusignan-a-fighting-queen/
• New Medieval Books: Books on Medieval Warfare and Chivalry in 2019 - Medievalists.net https://www.medievalists.net/2019/12/books-medieval-warfare-chivalry-2019/
18th Century (to 1815):
Early Modern:
• The Norwegian Thunderbolt: Vice Admiral Peter Wessel http://cimsec.org/the-norwegian-thunderbolt-vice-admiral-peter-wessel/42320
18th Century (to 1815):
Medieval:
• Divers Destroy WWII Bomb Found in 17th Century Ship LondonOld Salt Blog http://www.oldsaltblog.com/2019/10/divers-destroy-wwii-bomb-found-in-17th-century-ship-lon...
Ancient:
• 'This Frightful Catastrophe https://www.historynet.com/this-frightful-catastrophe.htm
Early Modern:
• The Mystery of Florida's Cannonball-Eating Spanish Fort - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/coquina-fort-in-florida
18th Century (to 1815):
1815-1861:
•Saving the UKs Last Working Semaphore Tower in South-West London IanVisits https://www.ianvisits.co.uk/blog/2019/06/11/saving-the-uks-last-working-semaphore-tower-in...
Civil War
•Church in the Maelstrom: A Historians Reflection on the Violence of the Wars First Major Battle https://www.historynet.com/church-in-the-maelstrom.htm
18th Century (to 1815):
•Kabinettskriege: How Close Ranged Were Mid-Eighteenth-Century Firefights? https://kabinettskriege.blogspot.com/2018/01/how-close-ranged-were-mid-eighteenth.html?fbc...
Medieval:
Medieval:
•Battle of Grunwald Painting Warsaw, Poland - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/battle-of-grunwald-painting-national-museum
Ancient:
•British Museum Realises 'Vase' Is in Fact an Ancient Mace-Head Displayed Upside Down | the Art Newspaper https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/british-museum-goes-belly-up
Ancient:
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar@silbey.net>
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar@silbey.net>
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar@silbey.net>
Ancient:
• Barbarians at the Gate The Last Battles of the Roman Army MilitaryHistoryNow.com https://militaryhistorynow.com/2018/10/28/going-out-with-a-bang-the-last-battles-of-the-ro...
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar [at] silbey.net>
Ancient:
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar@silbey.net>
Ancient:
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar@silbey.net>
18th Century:
• Disciplining the Empire Dr. Sarah Kinkel on the Eighteenth-Century British Royal Navy http://cimsec.org/disciplining-the-empire-dr-sarah-kinkel-on-the-eighteenth-century-britis...
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar@silbey.net>
Early Modern:
• The Vasa: Gustav II Adolfs Glorious and Doomed Warship http://www.medievalists.net/2018/06/the-vasa-gustav-ii-adolfs-warship/
19th Century:
The Military History Digest is a selected assortment of military history pieces from around the web. Suggestions for entries or sites to follow are always welcome at <hwar@silbey.net>
Ancient:
• Naval History Blog Blog Archive The Making of a Naval Disaster https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/05/17/the-making-of-a-naval-disaster
Medieval:
18th Century:
• Naval History Blog Blog Archive John Paul Jones and the North Channel Naval Duel https://www.navalhistory.org/2018/04/24/john-paul-jones-and-the-north-channel-naval-duel
19th Century:
Ancient:
Medieval:
• Noble warriors: the military elite and Henry VIII's expeditions of 1513 and 1544 - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2018/03/noble-warriors-the-military-elite-and-henry-viiis-expe...
Early Modern:
Medieval:
• The Viking Great Army in England: new dates from the Repton charnel - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2018/02/viking-great-army-england-new-dates-repton-charnel/
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Ancient:
Ancient:
- Not forts and not always on a hill | MetaFilter https://www.metafilter.com/171490/Not-forts-and-not-always-on-a-hill
Ancient:
• Barbury Castle Ð Swindon, England - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/barbury-castle
Medieval:
Early Modern:
Early Modern:
1. Motivation in War: The Experience of Common Soldiers in Old-Regime Europe | Reviews in History http://www.history.ac.uk/reviews/review/2183
2. Ruins of the Columbian Cannon Foundry Washington, D.C. - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/ruins-of-the-columbian-cannon-foundry
Medieval:
1. Book Review: Blood and Faith: The Purging of Muslim Spain, 1492-1614 by Matthew Carr | LSE Review of Books http://blogs.lse.ac.uk/lsereviewofbooks/2017/09/13/book-review-blood-and-faith-the-purging...
Early Modern:
Ancient:
1. Caesars Genius at the Battle of Pharsalus http://www.scottmanning.com/content/caesars-genius-at-the-battle-of-pharsalus/?utm_source=...
Ancient:
1. Bodies Piling up at the Battle of the Bagradas (49 BC) http://www.scottmanning.com/content/bodies-piling-up-at-the-battle-of-the-bagradas-49-bc/?...
This is the 300th edition of the Military History Digest. I started it in December 2007, so it's almost the 10th anniversary as well.
Enjoy!
David Silbey,
H-War List Editor
Ancient:
1. Warfare After Alexander The Armies of the Early Hellenistic Era | militaryhistorynow.com http://militaryhistorynow.com/2017/03/13/warfare-after-alexander-the-armies-of-the-early-h...
Medieval:
Ancient:
1. Blog - Hannibals Humour - Osprey Publishing https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/HannibalsHumour/
Ancient:
1. Old Dragon's Head Qinhuangdao Shi, China | Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/places/old-dragons-head
Medieval:
2. Fortification Friday: Stoccades as a supplemental interior arrangement | To the Sound of the Guns https://markerhunter.wordpress.com/2016/12/23/fort-friday-interior-pt19-2/
18th Century:
Medieval:
1. Before the Kaiser: The Memory of Saladin and the Crusades in the Near East from the Fifteenth to the Nineteenth Centuries - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2016/12/kaiser-memory-saladin-crusades-near-east-fifteenth-nin...
Ancient
1. Iran's Great Wall Is Now Buried and Forgotten | Atlas Obscura http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/irans-great-wall-is-now-buried-and-forgotten
Medieval:
1. Blog - 950 Years since the Battle of Hastings - Osprey Publishing https://ospreypublishing.com/blog/Hastings950/
2. newswise.com/articles/did-your-ancestor-fight-in-the-hundred-years-war http://newswise.com/articles/did-your-ancestor-fight-in-the-hundred-years-war
Ancient:
1. Natural born killers: humans predisposed to murder, study suggests | Science | The Guardian https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/28/natural-born-killers-humans-predisposed-to...
Medieval:
Ancient:
1. These Weapons Killed Leonidas http://www.scottmanning.com/content/these-weapons-killed-leonidas/?utm_source=feedburner&u...
18th Century:
Medieval
1. Can you move in armour? An Experiment in Mythbusting - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2016/07/01/can-you-move-in-armour-an-experiment-in-mythbusting/
18th Century
Ancient
1. Archaeologists Uncover Massive Naval Bases of the Ancient Athenians | smithsonianmag.com | Smithsonian http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/archaeologists-uncover-massive-naval-bases-an...
Ancient:
1. Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2015.10.39 http://www.bmcreview.org/2015/10/20151039.html
2. Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2016.01.38 http://www.bmcreview.org/2016/01/20160138.html
3. Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2016.05.02 http://www.bmcreview.org/2016/05/20160502.html
Medieval:
(Triple size edition!)
Ancient:
1. Leuctra Victory Monument http://www.scottmanning.com/content/warpath-wednesday-leuctra-victory-monument/?utm_source...
Medieval:
Ancient:
1. Slaughter at the bridge: Uncovering a colossal Bronze Age battle | MetaFilter http://www.metafilter.com/158138/Slaughter-at-the-bridge-Uncovering-a-colossal-Bronze-Age-...
18th Century:
Medieval:
1. Harold Godwinson in Wales: Military Legitimacy in Late Anglo-Saxon England - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2016/03/05/harold-godwinson-in-wales-military-legitimacy-in-la...
Early Modern:
Ancient
1. The Ancient Battle Generals Still Love to Copy | RealClearDefense http://www.realcleardefense.com/2016/02/28/the_ancient_battle_generals_still_love_to_copy_...
Medieval:
1. Saladin and the Problem of the Counter-Crusade in Medieval Europe - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2016/02/03/saladin-and-the-problem-of-the-counter-crusade-in-m...
Medieval:
1. Genghis Khan: Barbarian Conqueror or Harbinger of Democracy - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2016/01/15/genghis-khan-barbarian-conqueror-or-harbinger-of-de...
2. Provences Bloody Past: Six Lessons from a Forgotten Crusade http://warontherocks.com/2016/01/provences-bloody-past-six-lessons-from-a-forgotten-crusade/
Early Modern:
1 (C. Early Modern) 2015: The Year of the Military Revolution in French historiography | Skulking in Holes and Corners https://jostwald.wordpress.com/2015/12/29/2015-the-year-of-the-military-revolution-in-fren...
Medieval
1. Ten Castles that Made Medieval Britain, by James Turner http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/29/ten-castles-that-made-medieval-britain-by-james-tur...
2. The Empire that was always Decaying: The Carolingians (800-888) - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2015/12/11/the-empire-that-was-always-decaying-the-carolingian...
Medieval:
1. Hidden Complexities of the Frankish Castle http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/11/hidden-complexities-of-the-frankish-castle/
Medieval:
1. Masculinity and Crusade: the influence of martial activity in the Latin East on Norman and Frankish warrior identity, the material culture, c. 1095-1300 - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2015/11/07/masculinity-and-crusade-the-influence-of-martial-ac...
Early Modern
Medieval:
1. Anniversary of the Battle of Agincourt | Notes From The Bunker https://blainepardoe.wordpress.com/2015/10/28/anniversary-of-the-battle-of-agincourt/
Ancient:
1. Book Review: Rome’s Revolution by Richard Alston | Battles and Book Reviews http://www.military-history.us/2015/10/book-review-romes-revolution-by-richard-alston-2/
Medieval:
1. Agincourt was a battle like no other … but how do the French remember it? | World news | The Guardian http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/26/agincourt-600th-anniversary-how-french-rememb...
2. Shell-keeps re-visited: the bailey on the motte? - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/23/shell-keeps-re-visited-the-bailey-on-the-motte/
Medieval
1. Hellburners Were the Renaissance’s Tactical Nukes | War Is Boring http://warisboring.com/articles/hellburners-were-the-renaissance-equivalent-of-a-tactical-...
2. The last rex crucesignatus, Edward I and the Mongol alliance - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/12/the-last-rex-crucesignatus-edward-i-and-the-mongol-...
Medieval:
1. Finding the Battle of Bannockburn - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2015/09/02/finding-the-battle-of-bannockburn/
2. Fireworks in Scotland date back to 1507, researchers find - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/30/fireworks-in-scotland-date-back-to-1507-researchers...
Ancient:
1. The Battle of Drepana, 249 BC (part 1) - Ancient Warfare - Karwansaray Publishers http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/ancient-warfare/blog/the-battle-of-drepana-249-bc-...
Medieval:
Medieval:
1. Against the Currents of His Day: Brittany, Louis the Pious, and Elite Insurrection - Medievalists.net http://www.medievalists.net/2015/08/05/against-the-currents-of-his-day-brittany-louis-the-...
Medieval
1. Is it Better to Die in Battle or to Flee? A Medieval View http://www.medievalists.net/2015/07/05/is-it-better-to-die-in-battle-or-to-flee-a-medieval...
