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Renaissance Links

Renaissance history and wargaming links

1644: Showdown at Shanhaiguan Battle between the Ming and Manchus.

Anglo-Dutch Wars (1652-1674) Naval wargaming covering the period of the Anglo-Dutch Wars 1652-1674.

The Art of Warfare 16th Century battles.

Atlas of Mutual Heritage Maps and images relating to the Dutch in Asia and Southern Africa (VOC regions) and West Africa and Southern, Central and North America (WIC regions).

** NEW LINK ** Battle of Yellow Waters 1648 Battle between the Poles and Zapororasian Cossacks.

The Battlefields Trust Maps, photos, and information about battlefields in Britain. Includes ancient and medieval battles as well as ECW, Monmouth's rebellion, and Jacobite rebellions.

Der Bauernkrieg von 1525: The German Peasants� Revolt Here's your chance to use the phrase, "The peasants are revolting."

Boleslav Orlicki's Light Artillery A re-enactment group whose web site has lots of information about military equipment and costumes of the Later 17th-Century Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth.

Border Warfare Battles and fortifications of the Border Reivers.

British Civil Wars, Commonwealth and Protectorate, 1638-1660 Timelines, biography and military history.

** NEW LINK ** British History Online Lots of historical sources including the State Papers.

De Bellis Homepagius including Mike Kroon's guide to choosing your DBR army.

Condottieri A primarily New Zealand based group of wargamers interested in warfare during the Renaissance Period. Our aim is to foster gaming in this period and to provide a forum and resource base.

Condottieri di Ventura Italian website about Condottieri 1330-1550.

Corsari del Mediterraneo Italian website about corsairs of the Mediterranean 13th � 17th Centuries.

Drei�igj�hrigen Krieg German website about the 30YW.

Elizabethan Fencing and the Art of Defense William Wilson, author of The Arte of Defence, has a website dedicated to sixteenth- and seventeenth-century fencing.

EMWWeb: The Early Modern Warfare Website Jamel Ostwald's Em-Web is an interesting assemblage of stuff about early modern warfare, especially siege warfare.

English Civil War Coats and Colours A painting guide from the Baccus 6mm website.

English Civil War Society A reconstruction of the armies of the English Civil Wars.

Father Tilly Wargames rules designed to recreate battles from the Thirty Years War. This website contains the rules, army lists and orders of battle for many of the armies and battles of the period.

Flodden 1513 Battle between the Scots and English in Northumberland on 9 September 1513.

Flodden 1513 Club Website of a club that commemorates the battle. Includes a good account of the action.

Free Wargames A Yahoo group from which you can download free wargame rules including Exercise of Warre (ECW), Bushi (Medieval Japan), and Duel, Brawl and Skirmish (17th century man-to-man).

G� P� is a set of miniature war games rules for the era of Marlborough, Eugene, Charles XII and Peter the Great. Includes rules, army lists and scenarios.

The Garrison Lots of useful DBR resources compiled by Nick Smuts.

The Geometry of War No that doesn't mean prodding someone with a compass from your geometry set. This is about mathematics, gunnery, and fortifications.

Great North War and The War of the Spanish Succession Uniform and painting guide from the Baccus 6mm website.

Historical Description of Clothing and Armament of Russian Troops The first volume of Viskavatov's book on the Russian army covers the period up to 1700.

Isle of Tortuga Mostly about 17th Century buccaneers.

John Francis Guilmartin was a pilot in the Vietnam war, and is now a historian of 16th century naval warfare. Some of his writings are on his website.

Kiy�fetn�me Prints of Ottoman costume.

Lace Wars Wargaming the period 1660-1720, by Stephen Danes.

Landsknecht Homepage This mercenary force has a dot com site.

Tim Porter's Madaxeman site (including the DBR list validation tool)

Malta Military A website about the history of Malta by Christian Formosa, focussing on fortifications and military architecture.

The Mary Rose is the only 16th century warship on display anywhere in the world. Built between 1509 and 1511, she was one of the first ships able to fire a broadside, and was a firm favourite of King Henry VIII. After a long and successful career, she sank accidentally during an engagement with the French fleet in 1545. Her rediscovery and raising were seminal events in the history of nautical archaeology. 

The Mughals Origins, Babur, Akbar, the last three great Emperors, the Marathas, the Sikhs, Europeans, the British Raj and Indian independence.

The myArmoury.com website includes some parts of George Gush's book Renaissance Armies, along with lots of other resources about historic arms and armour.

Northern Wars 1648-1730 Includes the Second Northern War 1655-1660, Scanian War 1675-1679, and The Great Northern War 1700-1721.

Peter 'Gonsalvo' Anderson's Wargaming Page has a resource page for the upcoming Piquet Band of Brothers rules, version II (late medieval/renaissance 1200-1600).

Pike and Plunder A four-player Italian Wars campaign game, available to download for free from the Vexillia website. You can also download free PDFs of 15mm scale flags for the Great Italian Wars.

The Pike and Shot Society, publishers of The Arquebusier journal.

Polish Renaissance Warfare Summary of conflicts, battles and campaigns, army composition and army development from 1450 to 1699.

Principles of War The PoW games system includes a renaissance rule set.

David Heading's Renaissance Wargames Homepage including a set of Renaissance Naval Rules in DBR style.

Renaissance Wargames Society (formerly the United States Pike and Shot Federation), publishers of The Reiter journal.

The Sealed Knot English Civil War re-enactment society founded by Brigadier Peter Young and a group of friends following a party in Cavalier costume held in the summer of 1968.

Seventeenth Century links Vexillia's website has links to websites about Louis XIV, Thirty Years' War, English Civil War.

Spanish Fury One of The Perfect Captain�s rulesets for warfare in the late 16th Century, including large and small scale miniatures rules, a stand-alone siege warfare game and supplements for naval warfare.

The Spanish �Tercios� 1525 - 1704 Organisation, the tactics, the battles and campaigns of the famous Spanish Tercio in the XVI and XVII centuries.

The Thirty Years' War Battles, weapons and equipment of the French, Swedish, Spanish, Holy Roman Empire and Danish armies.

Thirty Years War Website from the Danish Wargaming Society.

Thirty Years War 1618-1648 Sources including artwork and primary and secondary resources.

The Thirty Years War: Home Page Summary of the military and diplomatic developments of the Thirty Years War.

Uniforms of the Thirty Years War A painting guide by Bill Boyle.

Venetian Army in the XVII and XVIII Century Sketches of troops of the Serenissima - the Republic of Venice.

The Wars of Karl IX Wars of Sweden against the Poles, Danes and Muscovy in the early 1600s.

Wars of Religion The French wars of 1562 to 1598.