The battles aren't always that obscure, as the author admits - think there has been some 'mission creep'
http://obscurebattles.blogspot.com/
Write up, fantastic maps - which he is very careful to scale (he is former USN military intelligence and made maps for missions)
Best bit is the OOBs - strengths from Corps down to Battalion level. The Napoleonic ones are colour coded for jacket/turnbacks!
Down sides:
not 'lots and lots'
OOBs are PDF so no copy/paste the names (which when you are doing Austro-Hungary you REALLY need!)
Bookmarked, thanks
Certainly an excellent resource.
Just read Friedland - It's a fantastic resource.
Indeed, I have found the SYW entries really useful.
Thanks LH, a great find. Have only partial looked at Lexington & Concord but very much appreciate his analysis and approach.
Interesting that Leuthen is an obscure battle. Along with Gaugamela, Cannae, Hattin, Pavia, Nagashino, Waterloo, and Alamein, I presume.
Quote from: FierceKitty on 04 December 2018, 11:18:25 PM
Interesting that Leuthen is an obscure battle. Along with Gaugamela, Cannae, Hattin, Pavia, Nagashino, Waterloo, and Alamein, I presume.
My school history course covered all of the latter except Nagashino. There was no mention of the Seven Years War, let alone Leuthen. So, an obscure and unimportant conflict, clearly :D
My school history course mentioned none of them. But we covered Blood River about four times, always stressing white heroism....
QuoteBut the "obscure" part will have more to do with my own take on these events, characters, and interpretations than with the relative obscurity of the battle itself.