Historyzine: The History Podcast » sieges http://historyzine.com History narrative, linguistic history trivia and history podcast reviews, all topped off with the current special feature, which is the War of the Spanish Succession. Thu, 10 Nov 2011 06:50:08 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 History narrative, linguistic history trivia and history podcast reviews, all topped off with the current special feature, which is the War of the Spanish Succession. This stars, Louis XIV, the Duke of Marlborough, Prince Eugene, Anthony Heinsius and many thousands of supporting soldiers. Jim is a history enthusiast who loves telling stories and adores rummaging about amongst the delights and horrors of the past. Jim Mowatt clean Jim Mowatt jim.mowatt@gmail.com jim.mowatt@gmail.com (Jim Mowatt) 2006-2010 Historyzine - a History magazine in audio history,podcast,marlborough, Spanish succession,historical,war,history podcast Historyzine: The History Podcast » sieges http://historyzine.com/wp-content/hlimagea.jpg http://historyzine.com Historyzine 006: Siege Warfare http://historyzine.com/2008/02/07/historyzine-006/ http://historyzine.com/2008/02/07/historyzine-006/#comments Thu, 07 Feb 2008 17:58:57 +0000 jimmowatt http://historyzine.com/2008/02/07/historyzine-006/ Continue reading →]]> Subscribe to podcast Windows: iTunes 1-click subscribe

In episode 6 of Historyzine we look at early 18th century sieges, the changing nature of warfare and some of the reasons behind the reticence to commit troops to a fully fledged battle in this War of the Spanish Succession. We will focus particularly on the great French engineer Vauban, his fortresses and his techniques for laying siege to a fortress. There’s a plan of a Vauban type fortress here

If you take a look at this pdf document you will be able to see some really good aerial photographs of Vauban fortresses that give a fine indication of how it works as a piece of defensive technology.

Finally here’s a picture showing the lines of circumvallation and contravallation and the three parallels the besiegers would dig as part of the siege of a fortress town.

We mention in the podcast one of the finest references on the net for the War of the Spanish Succession www.spanishsuccession.nl and also give a shout out to the Genealogy Gems podcast plus a mention for a site simply jammed full of history podcast reviews http://anneisaman.blogspot.com/
Latest news on the Oudenaarde re-enactment for the 300th anniversary of the battle of Oudenaarde is that I have booked my hotel room and the reenactment will be taking place over the weekend 12th and 13th of July.

Our review this time is of a podcast from the History Network and is an audio tour of a walk around Soho in London.

If you wish to leave feedback on the podcast then do so through the site http://historyzine.com/ or use the contact page to send a form email http://historyzine.com/contact/

]]> http://historyzine.com/2008/02/07/historyzine-006/feed/ 6 eugene,history,Historyzine,jim,marlborough,mowatt,podcast,siege,sieges,war,warfare In episode 6 of Historyzine we look at early 18th century sieges, the changing nature of warfare and some of the reasons behind the reticence to commit troops to a fully fledged battle in this War of the Spanish Succession. In episode 6 of Historyzine we look at early 18th century sieges, the changing nature of warfare and some of the reasons behind the reticence to commit troops to a fully fledged battle in this War of the Spanish Succession. We will focus particularly on the great French engineer Vauban, his fortresses and his techniques for laying siege to a fortress. There's a plan of a Vauban type fortress here If you take a look at this pdf document you will be able to see some really good aerial photographs of Vauban fortresses that give a fine indication of how it works as a piece of defensive technology. Finally here's a picture showing the lines of circumvallation and contravallation and the three parallels the besiegers would dig as part of the siege of a fortress town. We mention in the podcast one of the finest references on the net for the War of the Spanish Succession www.spanishsuccession.nl and also give a shout out to the Genealogy Gems podcast plus a mention for a site simply jammed full of history podcast reviews http://anneisaman.blogspot.com/ Latest news on the Oudenaarde re-enactment for the 300th anniversary of the battle of Oudenaarde is that I have booked my hotel room and the reenactment will be taking place over the weekend 12th and 13th of July. Our review this time is of a podcast from the History Network and is an audio tour of a walk around Soho in London. If you wish to leave feedback on the podcast then do so through the site http://historyzine.com/ or use the contact page to send a form email http://historyzine.com/contact/ Jim Mowatt clean 31:28