Reference Links - 18th Century
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- 1699! Well ? ish!
- Gamer blog specializing in 18th century 15mm figures and games
- Bavarian Army at the Battle of Leuthen, 1757
- From the Bavarian Army Museum in Ingolstadt. It shows part of the huge diorama of the Battle of Leuthen, built by one Herbert M von Klenze, and incorporating over 17,000 figures.
- BritishBattles.com
- The site that gives you the battles fought by Britain and its Empire forces from the 18th Century to the end of the 19th Century, illustrated and mapped.
- Campaigns in Germania
- 18th. Century diplomacy, campaigns, battles, intrigues, story-telling and more using historical military miniatures, model terrain and the imagination.
- Der Alte Fritz Journal
- Welcome to The Alte Fritz Journal, a compendium of thoughts, opinions and information on all things germane to the mid-18th Century during the reign of King Frederick II of Prussia. While the focus of this blog will be on wargaming the War of the Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and the Seven Years War (1756-1763), I expect to touch on other related topics from time to time.
- Die franzosische Armee
- Unforms of the French Army
- Eighteenth Century Sojourn
- A blog dedicated to the battles of the 18th century
- Grand Duchy of Stollen
- Sometime in the late 1760s... Somewhere to the northeast of Frederick's Prussia
- Hanovarian Seven Years War Uniforms
- Prints from the Niemeyer & Ortenburg book on the Hanoverian army of the SYW
- Leuthen Journal
- A fellow wargamer's blog (Ioannis) on all things Seven Years War including plates, maps, units of organization and more. Not to mention his impressive gallery of painted figures.
- Leuthen Project
- The Earlswood Wargamer's Lethen Club Project Gallery
- Muster the Troops
- Based on a system designed by Henry Hyde and published in Battlegames magazine, this terrain generator will randomly generate a grid of squares in the size you specify, each marked with the dominant terrain type for that square.
- Not by Appointment
- Being a uniform and flag template design service to the imaginary crowned heads of Seven Years War Europe - now By Appointment to the Court of Saxe-Bearstein! (But please note that the uniforms presented here are not fictional - they are genuine SYW uniforms that are as authentic as I can make them from my sources.)
- NYPL Digital Library - The Vinkhuijzen collection of Military Uniforms
- Scans of original prints showing uniforms of many nationalities for many centuries centuries.
- Project SYW by Krnoskaf
- One of the best SYW support sites on the net. It covers all powers and most units that participated in the war.
- Reichsarmee of the Pangaean Western Circle
- This blog and a couple others offer a very well done alternate-history 18th century campaign.
- SYW Russian Uniform plate Site
- Clothing and weapons of Russian troops, with the accession of information about the banners, decorations in the reign: the Duke of Courland and the Princess of Brunswick-Lüneburg Anne from 1740 to 1741, Empress Elizabeth from 1741 to 1761, the Emperor Peter III-rd in 1762.
- War of the Spanish Succession Project Page
- Fueled by early Featherstone, and in particular Grant and Young ("Charge!" anyone??), kicked into stuttering life by the fine writing in "Battlegames" magazine, and the fine conversation on the Old School Wargaming Yahoo group, my painting and collecting for the War of the Spanish Succession (WSS, hereafter) started with a vengeance early in 2006....