Ride with the Devil (1999)

I like this film. The original novel is good too, Originally called Woe to Live On. Trailer

Charge of the Light Brigade montage by Andy James

 Screenshots to show what a good film it was. Campaign to get a decent revised edition, We want to see the Heavy Brigade! Full movie here

The 11th Hussars' Recruitment Drive - "The Charge of the Light Brigade"

One of my favourite movies. 

From "The Charge of the Light Brigade" (1968), dir. Tony Richardson.

Soldiers from the 11th Hussars strut with ceremony through an immiserated working-class neighborhood in Victorian London. The merry bandsmen and well-kempt cavalrymen -- dressed in their clean regimentals -- seek to fill the ranks with new recruits from the lowest rungs of English society. The silver-tongued recruiting sergeant woos destitute and cast-aside men with promises of glory, adventure, admiration, fame, fortune, and good company should they choose to enlist in the 11th Regiment of Hussars. He fills his promises with romantic exaggeration to make more appealing the harshness, difficulty, and indignity which would no doubt attend these men upon taking the shilling, and throughout their life in the service. The sorrowful conditions of the neighborhood from which the rank and file of the 11th Hussars is drawn is juxtaposed with a previous scene in which gentry and aristocratic officers from the regiment fete and gather round to inspect Lord Raglan's prim cavalrymen, all with enthusiastic upper-class pomp.

Modellismo e Wargames kickstarter

 https://www.kickstarter.com/.../the-crusaders-of-pio-ix...

Here we go!!! We are ready to launch on Kickstarter on April 4th, 2025.

We have decided to also sell the stl (3d print) version for the entire range of Papal Army miniatures.

Eccoci qua!!! Siamo pronti(fianlmente) per il lancio su Kickstarter il 4 aprile 2025.

Abbiamo deciso di vendere anche la versione stl (stampa 3D) per l'intera gamma di miniature dell'Esercito Papale.

American Civil War Guerrilla Tactics

 I got this out of the library again. Probably my favourite ACW Osprey. 

artwork by G and S Embleton is great

The Goliad massacre

Goliad Executions By Norman Price

The Goliad massacre was an event of the Texas Revolution that occurred on March 27, 1836, following the Battle of Refugio and the Battle of Coleto; 425–445 prisoners of war from the Texian Army of the Republic of Texas were executed by the Mexican Army in the town of Goliad, Texas. The men surrendered under the belief they would be set free within a few weeks; however, this was not to be. Despite appeals for clemency by General José de Urrea, the massacre was carried out by Lt. Colonel José Nicolás de la Portilla, under orders from General and President of Mexico Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna.

The entire Texian force was killed, except for 28 men who feigned death and escaped. 

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