Rob Herrick wrote:Some Background:
George Nafziger is a historian and wargaming enthusiast in Westchester, Ohio who has collected some of the largest collections of orders of battle in the world. Up to ~2010, he would sell them. As he got older and the equipment the orders of battle are stored on got older, he realized two things:
1) the risk of losing the collection due to mechanical disfunction was high (they had serious problems transferring it to more modern equipment)
2) If something happened to him, his family might well just toss the old equipment and lose the priceless collection.
So he donated it to the wargamers and historians of the world.
The repository is held by the US Army, but there is a much faster download site here:
http://www.alternatewars.com/CARL/Nafgizer_CARL.htm
The individual PDFs are held in batch zip archives, for faster downloading. I have the whole collection on my laptop for easy reference.
Very interesting, thank you very much for the information.
Too bad that in the orders of battle of the year 1706 there will be only the French army at Castiglione, and not also that of the German-Imperials (Hesse-Kassel, and perhaps other German principalities and duchies, given the mentioned (by Robert Hall) presence of the battalion Brandenburgh-Bayreuth).
In the brief description of the battle I found on Wikipedia (Italian version) it is written that to the first assault against the imperials positions they were sent the Spanish only.
At the Order of battle found, it is listed only one battalion of Spanish, even not identified.
Strange!
The French Commander had started the day by sending only one battalion to the assault?
Something's not right, is it?
