Rear Guard Action

Another batch of blog posts you might not have seen otherwise Let´s start with digital cryptologist and security expert Bruce Schneier. ...

On the 1st of July 1863 (the same day that gun fire opened around the town of Gettysburg ) cannon fired from the capitals of the Dutch...

To get an impression of how important the Dutch colonies were in the Caribbean, let's look at the most important staple crop of the regi...

Okay, so how many slaves were there in Surinam and on the Dutch Antilles? First, let's look at the number of slaves coming in to the D...

Working on a short article with stats about the abolition of slavery in the Dutch West Indies, 150 years ago next Monday. It will be publis...

There's a lot of interesting stuff out there that doesn't end up in wargames blogs. I'd like to draw your attention to the Guard...

A discussion erupted in a Facebookgroup on the battle of Waterloo about the quality of the French army during the Waterloo campaign and ...