Dr. Alexander S. Burns
@KKriegeBlog
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Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. https://t.co/kc6TiZCYrG
Appalachia
Joined February 2018
Today, my book Infantry in Battle, 1733-1783, released. Why should you care? It changes the story of 18th century battles by telling the experiences of enlisted and NCOs, not just the officers. Battle looks different when you are enlisted. A thread for the infantrymen. 1/20
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Love him or hate him he is clearly a keen student of the Third Century Crisis
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Love him or hate him he is clearly a keen student of the Third Century Crisis
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This is the editing timeline for our recent Battle of Kesselsdorf episode. If you're curious about what we talked about in the 40 mins we had to remove join the Prime & Load War Room on Patreon. https://t.co/JEteSWyBjZ
#PrimeAndLoad #MilitaryHistory #Prussia
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The rumor that there are hundreds of thousands of Russian troops deployed to Belarus has no basis.
Given Rochan's close monitoring of military developments in Belarus, this is our assessment. There are no indications that such a large-scale redeployment has taken place. We continue to assess that the current Russian troop presence in Belarus numbers in the low thousands and
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"This is an unprecedented historic first and will change warfare forever!!"-dude whose knowledge of history doesn't even go beyond last week
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Solving for AI really isn’t that hard.
Professors are turning to oral exams to stop AI use
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“Hanging over it all was an invisible curriculum, the political assumptions about what should and should not be studied. James recalled a fellow graduate student he met at Yale, a white man oblivious to the latest academic orthodoxies. ‘He went on this long, passionate monologue
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For fifteen years I’ve scalped tickets to pay the bills. But in January 2016 I almost managed a real career.
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The Cohen Cup is flying back to Steubenville in style! Congratulations again to our rugby team on winning the Division III Rugby National Championship!!!
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I almost never post about sports,so forgive me but I am incredibly proud of the young men on Franciscan University’s rugby team, who won the Division III national championship. I’ve had several of them in class. Champions in and out of the classroom. Go Barons.
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A oft forgotten battle in Prussian military history. Give this one a listen.
Today marks the 280th anniversary of the Battle of Kesselsdorf. For those who celebrate, we've got a new episode about the battle available now! #PrimeAndLoad #Prussia #MilitaryMonday
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Congress: disappointing the American people since their refusal to mobilize a troop of Hussars in 1775
@KKriegeBlog Boooooooooo congress
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It turns out conservative people in the midwest don't like being threatened and cajoled by leaders in Washington. As a someone who spent the first 25 years of my life as a Hoosier, I'm not shocked by this.
President Trump has made it clear to Indiana leaders: if the Indiana Senate fails to pass the map, all federal funding will be stripped from the state. Roads will not be paved. Guard bases will close. Major projects will stop. These are the stakes and every NO vote will be to
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If you enjoy hussars, check out this thread on uniforms: https://t.co/Iu06xG33vL
Well, I'm currently stuck at an airport waiting on a delayed flight to a military history conference, so here is my promised thread on uniform research. Again- I'm more of a social-military historian, so this might not be radically new to you uniformologists out there.
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This would have a fine Effect upon the Germans through the Continent, of whom there are Multitudes. What will be done is yet uncertain. 5/5
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He says he has fifty Such Men ready to inlist under him immediately who have been all used to the service as Hussars in Germany, and desirous to ride to Boston immediately in order to see Burgoignes light Horse. 4/5
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a Light Gun strung over his shoulder—and a Turkish Sabre, much Superiour to an high Land broad sword, very large and excellently fortifyed by his side—Holsters and Pistols upon his Horse. In short the most warlike and formidable Figure, I ever saw. 3/5
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A forlorn Cap upon his Head, with a Streamer waiving from it half down to his Waistband, with a Deaths Head painted in Front a beautifull Hussar Cloak ornamented with Lace and Fringe and Cord of Gold, a scarlet Waist coat under it, with shining yellow metal Buttons 2/5
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I missed the 250th of this in July, enjoy it now before 1775/2025 rolls on. John Adams, July 6th, 1775: "A few Minutes past, a curious Phenomenon appeared at the Door of our Congress: A german Hussar, a veteran in the Wars in Germany, in his Uniform, and on Horse back." 1/5
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