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If you want to know how to service siege cannon, learn musket drill, see what an escalade is and how to carry it out, or the best construction for assault ladders; all this can be learned alongside information about troop and cavalry deployments, hard defences and naval support. * Army Rumour Service 20/02/2019 * Anyone with an interest in siege warfare, particularly in the Baroque period, should read this account... * Military History Monthly 13/02/2019 * I found this book compelling and utterly authentic. * Martin Oaff *

I found this book compelling and utterly authentic. * Martin Oaff * I like this approach to the subject. We get a good idea of the daily pattern of a siege, [...] while the inserts looking at the nature of siege warfare in this period give more context to the events being described. * History of War * Anyone with an interest in siege warfare, particularly in the Baroque period, should read this account... * Military History Matters (Reviewer) 13/02/2019 * If you want to know how to service siege cannon, learn musket drill, see what an escalade is and how to carry it out, or the best construction for assault ladders; all this can be learned alongside information about troop and cavalry deployments, hard defences and naval support. * Army Rumour Service 20/02/2019 *

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Boris Megorsky born in Leningrad, USSR, in 1978. Lives in St. Petersburg, Russia with his beloved family. Made his Ph.D. in Political Science, works in Human Resources but his true passion has always been military history. As a scholar he specializes in everyday life of the Russian army, its uniforms, tactics and siege warfare of the Great Northern war period. Author of three books – “Peter the Great’s Revanche” (2016) and “Sieges and Assaults of the Great Northern war” (2017) in Russian and “Russian Forces of the Great Northern War” (2018) with Helion & Company. As a re-enactor he is member and “sergeant” of “Preobrazhensky Life Guard regiment, 1709” - Russia’s leading reenactment society of the early 1700s. His passion in miniatures make him paying great attention to details both in research and in re-constructions, be it reenactors kit or graphical illustration consulted by him. He counsels films, museum and publishing projects, miniature manufacturers and artists.

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