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Okay well there is about the painting. but mostly I want to say that I just watched Greyhound and thought it to be a great war movie in that it described the ins and out of actual battle. It's available on Apple+ or I don't know. Places.

I'm going through a bad divorce right now and studying battles is a good distraction for me. Also watching movies.

This was a great movie about a naval battle that was possibly the most important in history. If Britain didn't get the shit we sent they might have starved and never punched the fuck out of Nazi Germany. The Battle of the North Atlantic was quite possibly the most epic of all the battles in that have been fought on the high seas. You had submarines fighting against surface vessels. It was probably the most savage fight of the second world war.

The movie, Greyhound, is a great depiction of naval combat at the time. The whole thing is one long battle. It's savage, dark, grim, and doesn't stop for one second. It's war. It shows how war works and how the war in the Atlantic was so desperate and how the wolf packs operated.

It's a great movie. I highly recommend it.

I really hope my exwife moves out soon.

Cool painting, though not Chinese attacking Americans.

The Painting was done for this book and shows a Chinese attack on positions of the British, Gloucestershire Regiment which took place during the Battle of the Imjin River.

The engagement saw 650 Brits defending against ~10,000 Chinese soldiers charging uphill, bayonets fixed. The fighting lasted nearly 3 days and resulted in ferocious hand to hand fighting. The Brits were eventually pushed from the hill, only 40 men made it back to friendly lines.

The book is really well written, and goes into a lot of detail about the story that brought them together

Devotion: An Epic Story of Heroism, Friendship, and Sacrifice https://www.amazon.com/dp/0804176604/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_i_qTe8DbSEXSGP4

Futurism in r/BattlePaintings!? Say it isn't so!

WikiArt says:

>The Charge of the Lancers is the only known work by Boccioni that is devoted exclusively to the theme of war. Being a collage, Charge was also a rare departure for the artist in terms of medium. In previous works, Boccioni had used the figure of the horse as a symbol for work, but in this collage the horse becomes a symbol of war and natural strength, since it appears to be overcoming a horde of German bayonets. If, in fact, Boccioni was establishing the brute strength of the horse over man-made weapons, it would suggest a slight departure from the Futurist principles of Marinetti. This work also eerily prefigures Boccioni's own death from having been trampled by a horse.

Check the front of the book. https://www.amazon.com/Acontecimientos-Grandes-batallas-ej%C3%A9rcitos-Spanish/dp/1472355911/ref=sr_1_5?dchild=1&qid=1606068877&refinements=p_27%3AParragon&s=books&sr=1-5

I know what you're thinking: "Hellenic on Hellenic? At Granicus? Say whaaat?"

Persian commander Memnon of Rhodes made use of both Greek mercenaries and Anatolian levies, so his army may have been predominantly Hellenic.

According to Encyclopædia Britannica:

>Battle of the Granicus, (early summer of 334 BCE), first victory won by Alexander the Great of Macedon in his invasion of the Persian Empire.

>The Persian army, numbering perhaps 40,000, occupied the far bank of the Granicus River (present-day Kocabaş, which flows into the Sea of Marmara). Alexander sent his shock troops, the Companions, into the stream to attack the Persians, who drove back the assault. When the Persians entered the stream to pursue the Macedonians, Alexander led the remaining Companions obliquely into the confused Persian ranks.

>The Persian cavalry fled, leaving the Greek mercenaries, who were on the plain along the river, open to a devastating assault from Alexander’s army. Alexander himself killed two relatives of the Persian king, Darius III, and his own life was saved by his cavalry commander, Cleitus (the Black). According to Arrian, Alexander lost only 115 of his own men. The victory left Asia Minor wide open to the Macedonian invasion.

This is a colored version of an engraving found in "The Great Republic, A New History of the United States" by Charles Morris, LL.D., 1899. The book can be viewed online here

For anyone interested in more information on the burning of Washington (which took place 204 years ago today), here's an article from the White House Historical Association

The only one I’ve ever read is The Polar Bear Expedition, and while it’s a little light on the deep context and analysis of what was going on in Russia - and the various Western capitols trying to contain it - it’d be exactly what you’re asking for as it’s mostly primary sources from men who were there or exposition directly from them.

Summary from Encyclopædia Britannica:

>Battle of Cynoscephalae, (197 bce), conclusive engagement of the Second Macedonian War, in which Roman general Titus Quinctius Flamininus checked the territorial ambitions of Philip V of Macedonia and bolstered Roman influence in the Greek world.

Context - The Battle (Capture) of New Orleans was an interesting event during the Civil War more for what happened after the Union took the city. You can read about the wartime occupation largely from General Butler's perspective -- though it's pretty fair to say his view of certain events is...disputed: https://archive.org/details/generalbutlerinn00part

Some background @ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capture_of_New_Orleans

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The charge happened during the Battle of Wörth during the Franco-Prussian War. About 700 French Cuirassiers charged into Morsbronn where they were trapped and annihilated by Prussian close range fire.

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The Battle of Lützen in 1632 was on of the decisive battles of the Thirty Years War. The Protestants won the battle but the death of the Swedish king Gustavus Adolphus was a significant loss. It resulted in Sweden losing its dominant role in the war.

Really cool find. The width of the paintings makes for some really interesting scenes, and the detail is special.

Was curious and some of Lopez's work is on google art and wiki, though sadly not at great detail. http://www.googleartproject.com/artist/candido-lopez/4125297

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Hannibal's crossing of the Alps

Full title: Charge of the Light Cavalry Brigade, 25th Oct. 1854, under Major General the Earl of Cardigan, by William Simpson

Depicting the Charge of the Light Brigade

This artwork was made for the book Stephen Biesty's Cross-Sections: Man-Of-War.

For the Amazon page, please click here: https://www.amazon.com/Stephen-Biestys-Cross-Sections-Man-War/dp/156458321X

I got the statistics from Wikipedia and the Smithsonian Museum’s Timeline of Histories (for the link to the book if you are interested, please click here https://www.amazon.com/Timelines-History-DK/dp/1465442480).

Great book about this war is "Bayonets in the Wilderness." I take notes when I read, and I filled a good thirty pages with excerpts and observations, more than any book I've read in the past few years. It's a fascinating examination of this little-known war on every level, from international diplomatic intrigue to early American politics down to the adventures and mishaps of the individuals caught up in events. If you're at all interested in early American history, I can't recommend this one enough.