My article in the Waterloo Journal;

https://www.facebook.com/photo?fbid=5568485659901680&set=pcb.5568485949901651

Her e is a short video highlighting my games at Salute over the last decade;

Reminded of this on Facebook today, a very disruptive post about the eagles at the Battle of Salamanca but still underappreciated.

I took part in Ken’s Listener Phone-in to talk about the War of the First Coalition and Throwing Thunderbolts; It can be found here. LINK

1. 2009: Denis Davidov- Partizan Leader (article: First Empire Magazine # 106 )
2. 2011: Wellington’s First Battle ( book: Caseshot Publishing)
3. 2012: Wellington’s First Battle (lunchtime lecture at National Army Museum, London)
4. 2012: British Artillery in the Netherlands, 1794 (article in Smoothbore Ordnance Journal #4 and on-line)
5. 2013: British Battalion Guns in the Netherlands, 1794 (article in Smoothbore Ordnance Journal #6 and on-line)
6. 2018: The Men Behind the Memorial (book: Caseshot Publishing, also 23 articles in Parish magazine)
7. 2020: Wellington at Bay (book: Helion)
8. 2020: Wellington at Bay (lecture: East Midlands Napoleonic Days, Bingham)
9. 2020: Wellington at Bay (article: Wargames Illustrated online booklet related to COVID cancelation of Salute 2020.
10. 2020-2025: Youtube channel, 36 Episodes and 44 total videos, 230 subscribers and 12,900 views)
11. 2021: Maucune’s Division at Salamanca (book chapter in Glory is Fleeting (Helion).
12. 2021: The History of a Salamanca Myth (Helion blogpost)
13. 2021: Life in the Redcoat (book review JSAHR vol.99, #399, p.447)
14. 2021: An Affair of Posts; Mapping the battle of Linselles (lecture in Centenary Conference of SAHR)
15. 2021: Guest on Napoleonic Quarterly podcast discussing Flanders 1793–5.
16. 2022: Wellington at Bay (article: Wargames Soldiers & Strategy #120)
17. 2022: An Affair of Posts; Mapping the battle of Linselles (book chapter in One Hundred Years of Army Historical Research, Helion)
18. 2022; The Other Side of the Hill (article re Béchaud in The Waterloo Journal, vol.44, #3)
19. 2022: Where did Wellington Fight his First Battle? (lecture at Second War & Peace conference, online)
20. 2023: Throwing Thunderbolts (book: Helion)
21. 2023: Throwing Thunderbolts (introductory blogpost: Helion)
22. 2023-2024: Daily ‘on this day’ chronicle of the war of the First Coalition on Twitter/X, 460 posts, 168K views (ended 28/06/2024)
23. 2023: Salamanca – The French Perspective ( 2 episodes of the Napoleonic Wars podcast with Zack White)
24. 2025: Napoleon at Little Gibraltar (article: Wargames Soldiers & Strategy #134)
25. 2025: The Best Army in Europe: The war record of the Prussian army in 1792-5 (Helion blogpost)
26. 2025: Highly Meritorious (lecture at 8^th Wellington Congress, Southampton) (April 2025)

Helion have published my blog post on the Prussian Army of Valmy;

This video shows the work in progress on the Whiff of Grape shot scenario from Throwing Thunderbolts;

The first video shows a complete playthrough of the scenario, while the second shows the game as presented at Salute 2024.;

This table is from p,75 of my book Wellington at Bay, the battle of Villamuriel, 25 October 1812, published by Helion in 2020.

The points values for special rules are here

We took Wellington at Bay to Salute this year, here is how Wargames, Soldiers and Strategy presented it;

Henry Hyde took these excellent shots of James and I playing ‘Wellington at Bay’;

Andrew Bamford, my editor at Helion & Company took this shot of me, with the Heion stand to my rear right where they sold out ‘Wellington at Bay’.

This shot is taken from Paint & Glue’s video report of the day

I have created a series of videos on my channel, relating to Wellington at Bay, in particular the wargame scenarios included in the book. The videos feature my wargame of the battle, which I had intended to take to Salute and Partizan in 2020.

This video explains how I create historical scenarios with Black Powder;

Really enjoyed presenting Wellington at Bay at Bingham today, grateful for the interest expressed. It was great to have Carole Divall in the audience, she was after all the inspiration for the whole project and has written an excellent foreword to the book. The book will be released later this spring and can be pre-ordered here.

Giving a presentation tomorrow “Wellington at Bay, the Battle of Villamuriel, 25th October 1812”

My new book Wellington at Bay, the battle of Villamuriel, 25 October 1812, will be launched at the Salute Wargames show at London ExCel.

This book describes the Battle of Villamuriel on the 25^th October 1812. This battle, while small, was the largest engagement of Wellington’s retreat from Burgos. This battle involved twice as many men as the better-known Battle of Villadrigo/Venta del Pozo two days before.

This is the first full length account of the action and improves significantly on previous accounts in the campaign histories by Oman, Napier and Divall. The aim has been to pull together archival sources from all four nations involved, British, French, Spanish and Portuguese, to build a coherent and balanced account of interest equally to historians and wargamers.

It can be pre-ordered on Amazon or at Helion