What's New
22 February 2010
- Added the: French Cavalry OOB at Ramillies.
20 February 2010
- Major update on the: English Infantry regiments.
1 February 2010
- Changed the looks of the site.
25 September 2009
- Added the: French and Spanish Infantry oob at Ramillies.
27 August 2009
- Completed the: Piedmont regiment.
- Updated the: Picardy regiment.
22 May 2009
- Split of the: English Navy.
- Split of the: Dutch Navy.
25 April 2009
- Added a biography of the: Grand Dauphin.
21 March 2009
- Added a map of France and its gouvernements: Map of France 1700-1714.
12 October 2008
- Made a map of the battlefield of Blenheim and the initial deployment: Map of deployment at Blenheim.
12 October 2008
- Added the Austrian Infantry regiments: Austrian Infantry regiments.
5 October 2008
- Added the Spanish Netherlands Cavalry regiments: Spanish Netherlands Cavalry regiments.
13 September 2008
- Added the English Infantry regiments: English Infantry regiments.
6 August 2008
- Added the Spanish Army: Spanish Army.
30 July 2008
- Updated the page about: Coffee.
1 May 2008
- Finished the page about: Spices.
6 April 2008
- Added an OOB chart for the: English Cavalry Regiments.
20 March 2008
- Added a page about: Acadia.
8 March 2008
- Updated the: Prussian Army.
4 March 2008
- Updated the: Siege of Villingen.
25 February 2008
- Updated the biography of: Tallard.
17 February 2008
- Updated the: Dutch Army.
10 February 2008
- Completed the: Battle on the Speyerbach.
15 January 2008
- Added the French victory in: The Surprise of Gent.
6 January 2008
- The siege of Lille has been updated and split in chapters at: The siege of Lille.
30 October 2007
- A major update of the navies page at: Navies.
7 October 2007
- Added a biography of John Cutts at: John Cutts.
16 September 2007
- A large update of the: French Army.
1 September 2007
- Added a tableau of the French Generals and some interesting conclusions to: French Generals.
30 August 2007
- Updated the biography of Villeroy at: Villeroy.
26 August 2007
- Updated the biogrpahy of Wassenaar Obdam at: Obdam.
25 August 2007
- Vast improvement in the timeline for 1701 at: 1701.
17 August 2007
- Added a small biography of prince Walrad of Nassau-Saarbrücken at: Nassau_Saarbrucken.
6 August 2007
- Added a Tableau of the Dutch Generals at: Dutch Generals.
5 August 2007
- A serious update of the first sections of the Battle of the Schellenberg.
29 July 2007
- Updated La feuillade.
18 July 2007
- A serious update of the first sections of the Battle of Ramillies.
15 July 2007
- Made a page for the English Army.
14 July 2007
- A serious update of the Battle of Blenheim.
11 July 2007
- Updated Galway.
11 July 2007
- Added a section about metals.
20 February 2007
- Updated the Weapons page.
11 February 2007
- Added a Map of African Colonies in 1700.
3 February 2007
- Added Constitution of Friesland.
28 January 2007
- Updated Anthonie Heinsius.
- Added Simon van Slingelandt.
21 January 2007
- Updated Boufflers.
7 January 2007
- Added Peer to the battles.
- Added Cannonade at Helchteren to the battles.
10 December 2006
- Updated Athlone.
2 December 2006
- Updated the Battle of Blenheim.
23 November 2006
- Added a page about sources available on the internet.
14 November 2006
- Added the Siege of Kaiserswerth.
19 October 2006
- Updated Torcy.
14 October 2006
- Updated Menno van Coehoorn.
2 October 2006
- Updated Villars.
- Updated the menu structure, because Google has problems with indexing my site
23 September 2006
- I have updated the Spanish Policy page .
20 September 2006
- I have updated the Links page.
18 August 2006
- Added a biography of the Princess des Ursins
- Added a biography of the Philip V
15 August 2006
- Added a clickable map of the Europea colonies in India in 1700 European Colonies in India
6 August 2006
- I have updated the biography of Marlborough. It is here: Marlborough
13 July 2006
- I have updated the biography of Louis XIV. It is here: Louis XIV
10 July 2006
- I have made a page that shows all generals on one page. It is here: All Generals
9 July 2006
- Added a map of the colonies in the Caribbean in 1700 Caribbean Colonies Map
2 July 2006
- Did some work on the Prince Eugen page
- Created a favicon for those that add my pages to favourites
14 May 2006
- Did some work on the Battle of Ramillies page
- Did some work on the Battle of Brabant page
2 May 2006
- Reorganised the English and Spanish Politics section:
- Added a picture of Versailles
22 April 2006
- Reorganised the French Politics section:
- Added Saint Simon
- Added Dangeau
- Added Liselotte of the Pfaltz
- Added Philippe I d'Orleans
- Added a genealogy of Louis XIV and the Orleans's
1 April 2006
- With the approval of the Geschichts- und Heimatverein Villingen I used a lot a lot of material it had assembled in order to improve the chapter about the siege of Villingen. I will now try to find some photographs that fit the chapter.
10 March 2006
- Finally finished the Turin chapters
- Did some work on the photograps in the Lille and Oudenaarde sections
26 February 2006
- Replaced the menu structure with one using css and javascript. This does not include the lower levels (eg. with the English Politicians), I am still thinking about whether I should add an extra dropdowlevel for those, or create some other solution on the pages themselves.
- Worked on creating a non-javascript menu at the bottom of each page
- Added some not finished chapters about the siege of Turin
4 February 2005
- Major updates in the UK politicians section.
- Updated Harley
- Updated Bolingbroke
- Updated Somers
28 November 2004
- Updated the biography of Queen Anne.
- Corrected a serious mistake in William III's family tree
- Added a description of Berwick's spring 1704 Portugal campaign in the timeline section
- Added a link to the site of the commitee organising the jubilee of the Ramillies battle in 2006
14 November 2004
- The siege of Lille added.
24 October 2004
- The battle of Villingen finished.
- Added some photographs to the Blenheim, Schellenberg and Oudenaarde pages.
- Added Vauban.
8 August 2004
I made a little trip to Blenheim, Donauwörth and Villingen, made some photos and picked up some material. This means I will renew all the pages concerning these places. Some of it is ready and uploaded today.
- The battle Schellenberg added.
- Blenheim cut short with some small additions.
16 May 2004
- The battle of Oudenaarde updated
- Added a bio of Leopold I
1 May 2004
- A good description of the battle of Oudenaarde added
- Added a bio of Josef I
- Updated bio of Ginkel
11 April 2004
- A major update in the timeline section, primarily focussing on:
- Spanish politics
- The Spanish campaign
9 December 2003
- Added a family tree of Charles II in the timeline section in order to clarify the claims of the pretenders to the Spanish crown.
- Updated 1701 in the timeline section
16 November 2003
- A major overhaul of the looks of the site
- As a consequence some pages appear though they are still under construction
- Added a credit page
- Some updates on the Caribbean Colonies and in the Commodities sections
15 October 2003
- Reworked and added the Brabant Lines and Ramillies sections
- Updated Coehoorn and Villeroy
1 October 2003
- Added a long page about the battle of Blenheim.
27 September 2003
- Added a page about French financial institutions in the politics section;
- Added a page about French taxes in the politics section;
- An update in the Politics section about French goals during the reign of Louis XIV.
29 August 2003
- An update in the Politics section about French State Institutions;
- Added some pieces about warfare Technique
14 May 2003
- A big update in the Timeline section with a lot of emphasis on the Austrian, Prussian and Hungarian perspectives;
- Added a piece about Austrian institutions;
- Did some work on Eugen's bio
6 May 2003
- Added coffee to the commodities page;
- Added a translated part of Villars memoirs about Friedlingen to the battle page;
2 May 2003
- Added Orleans to the French Sovereigns page;
- Reworked the economics section, added a colonies section to it, updated fur page;
- Updated Vendome.
30 April 2003
- Added Madame de Maintenon to the French Sovereigns page.
29 April 2003
- Updated Timeline upto 1705 after minor changes and Spell-checking.
- Updated the Links page.
- Over 200 visits since sunday 27th!, when the counter was installed.
- Updated the Dutch Institutions page.
27 April 2003
- Added Coehoorn to the Dutch generals.
- Reworked the Links page.
- Updated 1702 page, especially about Friedlingen .
25 April 2003
- Added the economics page.
- Added the Forum.
23 April 2003
- Added this page.
- Updated Heinsius, Fagel and Hop in the Dutch politicians section.
- Added Athlone and Obdam to the Dutch generals section.
- Added Louis of Baden to the imperial generals section.
- Some changes in overview of 1702 and 1704
- Added a link page