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Category: Late medieval Dutch Stichtse oorlog ~1480

The Battle of Scherpenzeel

Posted on 10 January 202010 January 2020 by GJG

Last year I have done a lot of reading and searching on the battle of Scherpenzeel and the days leading to this battle. For this moment, I will skip the political landscape, and focus on the scenario I think is most plausible at the moment. The battle of Scherpenzeel was part of the Sticht (Utrecht)…

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Geography of a Battlefield – “The origin of the Dutch landscape”

Posted on 9 January 2020 by GJG

The origin of the Dutch landscape In this post I hope to provide a quick overview of the history of the Dutch landscape. The Netherlands before the Roman occupation was partly sand and partly a marchy, swampy peat landscape. The southeastern parts (in light yellow and ochre) is higher and mostly consist of sands. The…

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Geography of a battlefield – “Modern day Gelderse Vallei”

Posted on 6 November 20196 November 2019 by GJG

In my research on the Battle of Scherpenzeel and the Stichtse oorlog from 1481, I have recently digged into the topic of geography. If you want to wargame this war, you need terrain, and it would be nice to know how it would have looked. Because this already quite long ago more than 500 years,…

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Book Review: Mercenaries and their Masters: Warfare in Renaissance Italy

Posted on 25 September 201925 September 2019 by GJG

A while ago this book was part of an discount of ebooks bij Pen and Sword. I bought and downloaded it, hoping to have some 15th century warfare stories inside. So I would have a better period feel for the 15th century projects. I am not really interested in the Italian wars, but it is…

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