Samuel Harvey

Although I fear more practice is required to impress Mr Sharpe with 3 rounds a minute.

A Graduation present to myself! An (Inert) India Pattern Brown Bess Reproduction.

French E-3 Sentry.

Red Arrows Display Team.

C-27J Spartan.

Finnish F/A-18C Hornet

RAF Eurofighter.

JAS 39 Gripen.

British Army Air Corp Display.

C-130.

JF-17 Thunder.

Pakistan Airforce JF-17 and C-130.

M-2000.

Eurofighter.

JAS 39 Gripen.

F-16.

Selection of NATO Static Displays. 2/2

U-2 Dragonlady

B-1 Lancer

UH-1 Iroquois (Huey)

F-16, Tornado and Eurofighter

Selection of NATO Static Displays. 1/2

I was very kindly given tickets to attend #RIAT25 this year, although belated I thought I might share some highlights in a thread:

A successful initial escapade into gardening. Nicotiana Alata (I think) grown over the course of a year.

First Class Graduate in History 📚

Leach, Jonathan. Captain of the 95th (Rifles): An Officer of Wellington’s sharpshooters during the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 2019), 206.

Leach, Jonathan. Captain of the 95th (Rifles): An Officer of Wellington’s sharpshooters during the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 2019), 207.

Leach continues and provides his own opinions on the argument.

#history #waterloo

Leach, Jonathan. Captain of the 95th (Rifles): An Officer of Wellington’s sharpshooters during the Peninsular, South of France and Waterloo Campaigns of the Napoleonic Wars, (London: Longman, Rees, Orme, Brown and Green, 2019).

Following the Battle of Waterloo, towards the end of June, Captain Jonathan Leach of the 1st Battalion 95th Rifles, while stationed at St. Denis noted in his journal a ‘curious dialogue’ between soldiers of his division. It provides an interesting window into the variety of Wellingtons force.

A few academic additions to the ever-growing library, picked up after helping out at the @batw.bsky.social conference at @ljmuofficial.bsky.social.

I would agree, although I feel the battle and I would suppose nature of the battle (in Wellington’s words “the nearest-run thing you ever saw in your life”), provides a sort of spectacular finish to the wars and that period of history.

I went with Waterloo being the final act, however Trafalgar was a close second. Sets up Britains naval domination into the 19th Century.

Waterloo? Ends a quarter-century of revolution, war and death across Europe.

Major-General Sir Garnet Wolseley to the War Office, 18 October 1873. Recommendations of kit for 'The Ashanti Expedition' (1874).

Source: Ashanti Expedition, 8 September 1873-22 February 1874, WO 106/285, The National Archives.
#Britishhistory #Militaryhistory #Asante #History

Dissertation completed and submitted. 10058 words on British and Asante interests that drove conflict and expansion on the Gold Coast. #history #Britishhistory #university

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I suppose you could also see the development of the likes of the Maxim Gun as a stepping stone to the idea more destructive power = more caution.

Non of that Ridley Scott rubbish

"ASHANTEE SKETCHES." Harper's Bazaar Aug 30 1873: 555-6. https://www.proquest.com/docview/1850152044?_oafollow=false&accountid=12118&pq-origsite=primo&sourcetype=Magazines&imgSeq=2

"ASHANTEE SKETCHES." dated Aug 30 1873 in 'Harper's Bazaar'. Several months prior to Sir Garnet Wolseley's expedition to Kumasi. #history #britishhistory #ghana #goldcoast #asante

Francis Meynell, ‘Sketchbook of watercolours depicting places visited by Francis Meynell while on a Royal Navy anti-slavery patrol off the west coast of Africa and includes several ship portraits’, 1870, MEY/2, National Maritime Museum, 10-12, https://www.lifeatsea.amdigital.co.uk/Documents/Detail/20751254?item=20751262

Sketches of the deck of the Slaver 'Albanoz', after interception by HM Albatross whilst on anti-slavery operations #history #royalnavy #britishhistory #slavery

Early firearms….as dangerous to
the firer as the target if contemporary paintings are to be believed. Details from a 1590 painting in the Carnavalet museum.