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Author: fechtschule

Shield Making Day

Posted on April 20, 2019June 20, 2019 by fechtschule

In order to have a lower cost way of making our shields, Matt has come up with the idea to make a group day of it. We just need to find a location where we can do this but here is detail. This will be July / August time…. These are the standard bosses for […]

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Great Naval Battles of the Ancient Greek World

Posted on April 20, 2019April 20, 2019 by fechtschule

When I was a kid, the main warfare we read about were land based conflicts during the Greek and Roman periods. Battle of Marathon and Thermopylae – that kind of stuff.. Yet I still remember reading and seeing pictures of biremes and triremes and being fascinated by their battering ram hulls. That said, I only […]

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The Battle of Cataluanian Fields AD451

Posted on April 19, 2019June 20, 2019 by fechtschule
The Battle of Cataluanian Fields AD451

The book focuses on a single battle that scholars of the time called one of the most pivotal battles of late antiquity. This battle also has very detailed reports from primary sources. The importance of this battle was that is was where Attila the Hun was stopped and defeated. Some see it as the last […]

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The Great Illyrian Revolt

Posted on April 19, 2019June 20, 2019 by fechtschule

The major premise of this book, is that without the Illyrian revolt, Arminius might not have been ready to strike at Rome. I have heard about Arminius and the lost legions. I used to live in Germany and frequently visited Hermans Denkmal which is a huge statue of Arminius (The Germans call him Herman). Until […]

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