theknightirish
@theknightirish
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alias Ryan Diamond, serial question asker, book enabler, whisky buff, original cadre of the Independent Company, and discusser of the Civil War over breakfast
Enfield, London
Joined May 2020
Fighting Joe Hooker - A Reassessment… My contribution to the #acwrtuk 2024 Conference on the Atlanta Campaign. How to make the Western Campaign about another Easterner.
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RT @theknightirish: This morning it’s more Boxers! Boxers! Boxers! from my dealer in York. I seem to be on a bit of a Boxer Rebellion roll….
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This morning it’s more Boxers! Boxers! Boxers! from my dealer in York. I seem to be on a bit of a Boxer Rebellion roll at the moment. 📚 🥊
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RT @theknightirish: Yesterday’s haul has been much delayed and twice lost in the post. Hopefully it’s been worth the wait: The Grand Strate….
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Yesterday’s haul has been much delayed and twice lost in the post. Hopefully it’s been worth the wait: The Grand Strategy of the Habsburg Empire. I am always surprised by how many Irish and Scottish surnames turn up in Habsburg history. 🇦🇹 🦅 🇭🇺 🦅 📚
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RT @theknightirish: Another book spanning many campaigns in the Champlain Valley. One for @ThatchGer1 potentially. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 ⛵️ https://t.co….
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RT @NRWGCharity: Join us for our next online event on Sunday 24th of August!. Subject: Quatre Bras, the French Perspective. Speaker: Andrew….
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Another book spanning many campaigns in the Champlain Valley. One for @ThatchGer1 potentially. 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇺🇸 ⛵️
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After an excellent book on the Revolutionary Navy I’m back to fiction, in this case I’m starting the Bolitho series. No idea if a Parsifal Pecorino is appropriate, but it’s right for the weather. 📚 🌊 🇬🇧 #readingndrinking
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RT @theknightirish: Had this recommended to me so I picked it up in @Foyles. Already spotted to the reference to Britain as ‘Semi-detached’….
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Had this recommended to me so I picked it up in @Foyles. Already spotted to the reference to Britain as ‘Semi-detached’… 📚
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RT @theknightirish: The #readingndrinking isn’t just about the books that come in: I’ve joined the @TheWineSociety and this is the first ha….
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The #readingndrinking isn’t just about the books that come in: I’ve joined the @TheWineSociety and this is the first haul to go with the rest of my summer reading…
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Some secondhand Crimean reflections arrived yesterday. Again no idea if it’s any good but it looked interesting… 🇷🇺 🇬🇧 🇫🇷 🇹🇷 🇮🇹 📚
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A Revolutionary War pick up from another secondhand book shop…
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Another charity shop find: a signed book about the King’s Dragoon Guards at Waterloo 💂 🇬🇧 🇫🇷
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I suspect this will be of interest to the readers and drinkers on here….
Tonight I’ve moved on to the shambles that is the Revolutionary French Navy with an excellent white Bordeaux but then Chateaux George is run by an Englishwoman… #readingndrinking
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An excellent general introduction to Nelson’s navy….
Tonight’s reading is a battered secondhand copy of Brian Lavery’s “Jack Aubrey Commands” with some Armagnac no doubt liberated from a Bonapartist who had no further use for it… #readingndrinking
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Tonight I’ve moved on to the shambles that is the Revolutionary French Navy with an excellent white Bordeaux but then Chateaux George is run by an Englishwoman… #readingndrinking
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