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Post by obriendavid » Tue May 27, 2008 11:57 pm

Stuart, it was good to meet up with you again at Partizan and thanks for the tip off about the 16th century Scots book. I've only had a chance to flick through it and the other toys I bought as I'm still doing the Grand Tour of Scotland with our American friends but it looks very interesting and is a battle I knew nothing about. The illustration you mentioned of the castel under siege is Tantallon castle and is just about a mile away from my house. It still has siege earthworks outside of it but these are reputed to be from the 1650 siege when General Monck trashed the joint but I must have another look perhaps some of them belong to the 1528 siege.

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Post by Michael » Wed May 28, 2008 12:13 am

Ah, the fabulous Tantallon Castle... Almost certainly, all the extensive earthworks date from the siege of 1651.

http://www.tantalloncastle.com/index.php?pageId=History
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Post by obriendavid » Wed May 28, 2008 12:18 am

Hi Michael, sorry for not replying to your previous messages but this is the first time in over a week that I've managed to get on the computer while the guests are in bed. I would have missed you at the Sea Bird Centre on the Monday as we were picking up the tourists.

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Post by parkinspieces » Wed May 28, 2008 10:12 pm

Thanks Dave, yep it was sure interesting seeing Barry's reaction on the day to those that asked about the depth of the Boyne :twisted:

It was great having a chat with Aly as well, I had't realised he was obtainning Duncan's F/P collection off him. It would be great if one day we could all get together for a F/P bash or similar. I think I'm going to order some of those Helion Prussians and paint them up staright away so as to make my mind up after revisting the "Waterloo to Mons" blog/site.

And yes, I started to look at my unpainted pile of 1500's stuff after I got back after discussing that book, but soon saw sense :?

Looking forward to Aly's 1848 Austrian conversion appearing somewhere, but a bit nervous as to what he's going to challenge me back with :cry:
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Post by obriendavid » Thu May 29, 2008 6:39 am

[quote="parkinspieces"] It was great having a chat with Aly as well, I had't realised he was obtainning Duncan's F/P collection off him. It would be great if one day we could all get together for a F/P bash or similar.
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Stuart, Dave Imrie has also suggested this a few weeks ago and Aly has also mentioned this in the past so we might do something next year. If we come up with something definite I'll let you know. I also forgot to mention that I had won a lovley little book on ebay 'The Diary of One of Garibaldi's Thousand' by Ciuseppe Cesare Abba which is his personal account of the Sicily campaign.

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Post by Alpha » Thu May 29, 2008 12:20 pm

Count me in for a big FPW bash!
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