Day 17:
Found I had to glue some swords and bayonets on to the Dutch unit so delayed shipping to let those set over night.
Did some reading of a book called "Fields of Battle: Retracing Ancient Battlefields" by Richard Evans. It reviews various ancient fights by considering things like the logistics, terrain, weather, and walking the ground with what little has been recorded and written about them. These get merged into a collective narrative with explanations of how he arises at his conclusions. So it is a bit speculative in places, except getting deeper at the reason for why things were written as they were causes one to have a different view and understanding of what could have been happening when placed in more of a context than just the limited written record.
I also opened up Michael Hopper's scenario book on the 1805 Napoleonic campaign, this one culminated in the battle of Austerlitz. An interesting read so far, one where napoleon let his Marshal and lesser general's do much of the smaller battles, while he focused on the larger picture, and was able to get his army in a spot where he defeated a much larger combined army of Austrians and Russians in a situation that one might not have imagined would be possible.
Austerlitz was my first reading about a Napoleonic battle when I was much younger, and it helped set me on the road of learning the history of those times. There always seems to be more, for it has massive amounts of detail that can be studied on and on, and about warfare that was waged over a good bit of time from the French Revolution to it's end in 1815.
