Dr. Alexander S. Burns
@KKriegeBlog
Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. http://patreon.com/Kabinettskriege
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Today, my book Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783, released. Why should you care? It changes the story of 18th century battles by telling the experiences of enlisted and NCOs, not just the officers. Battle looks different when you are enlisted. A thread for the infantrymen. 1/20
Me: It’s early 1777, you’re in your house in North Jersey and 20 Whig militiamen are outside your door to police the area for loyalists. My back-row student, interjecting: “Hey, 20 friends I don’t know yet!” The two students in the front who have just copped to being loyalists:
The poor cannot be neglected if we are to remain within the great current of the Church’s life that has its source in the Gospel and bears fruit in every time and place. --Pope Leo XIV, Dilexi Te
Lee don’t be weird on the shared account
Indiana Jones professor tweets are a fantasy that non-professors think about Indiana Jones as a professor rather than an action hero.
Indiana Jones is a fantasy about being a professor not having to submit itemized travel expenses after every adventure.
"we are badly of[f] for Musquets, I fear we shall be obliged to use Rifles." John Penn of North Carolina writing to John Adams on mobilization in North Carolina, April 1776
We tend to think generals always had a clear picture of the battlefield. Dust, smoke, fog, and terrain often left commanders nearly blind. How could the engagement at Soor had gone differently if the Austrians could have seen into the valley? #PrimeAndLoad #18thCentury
Hold up Have I heard this story before but with phrases like “ship money” and “long parliament”? Calm down it’s a joke
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