Articles

Feature articles on the military history of the Jacobite period

Russia and the Jacobite scare of 1725

On 15 June 1725, Russian warships and transport vessels anchored off of the Isle of Lewis while en-route to Spain. Rumours quickly spread that...

Duke of Cumberland’s new platoon firing drill

While the Duke of Cumberland’s army was encamped at Aberdeen and Strathbogie in March and early April 1746, Cumberland and Major-General Humphrey Bland, the...

Did the Duke of Cumberland introduce a new bayonet drill before Culloden?

Numerous histories of the Battle of Culloden reference the Duke of Cumberland's purportedly new bayonet drill which was allegedly introduced in his infantry battalions...