De Bataafsche Courant

Rotterdam National Militia before 1799. #uniforms #napoleonic

Stamboom!

It took me nearly 30 (!) years to finish this Mega City 1 fatty!

Cool outfits!

I was starting with my Hittite dba Army but they aren’t that much fun to paint as I thought.

So … I picked up on my study on the wars in the county of Holland against my ancestors, the wild West-Frisans. And bought some medieval miniatures of course. Plastic. Victrix. Glueing. :-(

This is a fun to read book on the invasion in the Batavian Republic in 1799. A combined Anglo-Russian Army bypassed the Batavian fleet who was already mutining, landed in Holland an Army, while the fleet also fought in the coastal area. Also an Orangist Army attacked from the East but they were easily dealt with. The expected rise of the population against the Revolutionary government also did not take place. Sounds familiar doesn’t it? In the end, the French-Batavian Army won, the Allies left, Holland was plundered, lots of small battles and a mentally ill noblewoman was shot because she was suspected of anti-revolutionary activities. The Batavian fleet would be scrapped anyway so they built a new one. In the end, the French messed up and turned the Republic into a Kingdom, and annexed the lot. They made themselves so unpopular that we now are a Kingdom under the Orange family. Go figure. Book has nice pictures. It’s not a complete history of 1799. Well written though.

Dit is dus een erg leuk boek. Hoe de Oranjes, Britten en Russen dachten “even” de Bataafse Republiek onderuit te halen en de Fransen een hak te zetten. En dat ging dus niet goed.

Does reading on military stuff and wargame rules count as well ?

Wel jog even een fotorapportage maken graag!

En oppassen met het oppakken, dat spul zit overal

Bourtanger Standerdmolen

Casualty list of Allied troops involved in the battle. It was a bloody affair.

One of the many casualty lists of the battle of #Seneffe august 1674. Researcher Denis M. is working on another paper on it.

One of the many contemporary pamphlets on the Battle of Seneffe in 1674 between the Allies (Dutch, Spanish, German) and the French.

Working on the battle of Seneffe 1674

Schiere foto mejong

one of the options for this kit is a Kev "Goblinmaster" Adams sculpted gobbogate, just fyi

Erg veel regen, westenwind, dus weer lekkend dak. Een computer heeft het al begeven…

Historische dorpen zijn cool! In de buurt van mij: het hunebedmuseum in Borger (steentijd, brons en ijzertijd) en museum het Hoogeland in Warffum.

Yep, smells nice too :-)

Human hair! It is the Pendon way!

A lovely book in dutch with texts on the Low Countries in the 10th and 11th centuries. Lives of Saints, the evil Norsemen, an arab traveller in Utrecht and peat. Very cool!

A book mainly on Frisian Law and coinage up to the 11th century. In dutch BTW, not Frisian. Little about West-Friesland, but more on Friesland, Groningen and Ost-Friesland. But.. with some info on Medemblik, probably started as a Frankish settlement, evolving into one of the cores of later West-Friesland with it’s own coins.

Book haul of the week. I love the 11th century.

#medieval #Frisians #Archeology

Cool! Who makes these?

Ik dacht dat er ooit een kleine Nederlandse club was, maar misschien was dat wel 1944 Normandisch.

Verder probeer ik nog middels een wargame wat zicht op het geheel te krijgen, maar de meeste wargame regels kennen de Lage Landen niet zo goed.

Dit is echt een geweldige website! Ik probeer de oorlog tussen de West-Friezen en de Graven van Holland geografisch te plaatsen en vooral dankzij het boekwerk van het Huis van Hilde wordt dat nu wat duidelijker. Ik ken trouwens helaas geen groepen die re-enactment doen rond het jaar 1000

Nothing wrong with them!

The noble Arnhem National Guard teaching the Orangists a lesson

Great book on the 1799 Anglo/Russian/Orangist invasion.

And this book arrived earlier, on the evil plans by Orangists, British and Russians to take over the Batavian Republic in 1799. They failed! Forward Batavians!

Historian Kees Nieuwenhuijsen wrote sone nice books on the history of Holand from around the 9th century, when it still was called West-Frisia. This is a source book and I bought it also for the Latin and pretty pictures :-)

We continue with the 11th century again, in which a lowely count named Dirk managed to beat an Imperial German Army near Vlaardingen. This is a source book with nice Latin text, pretty pictures and #archeology.

Excellent!

I have those as well :-) and just finished 2 fatties!

Two Citadel mini’s from the Judge Dredd range. Got these from the factory in Nottingham, which is a story of it’s own. Terrible casts btw and yes, I suck at taking pictures.

Ok, this guy actually looks like Rob Jensen

Vallejo Orange totally sucks.

After nearly 40 years I managed to paint these #2000AD #judgedredd #fatties

Ik hoop dat het helpt Henk