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Germanic Warrior Woman
Enemies of Rome

Kardake Light Infantry
Achaemenid Persian Empire

Celtibarian Scutarii
Carthaginian

Battle of Gingindhlovu
Battle of Gingindhlovu, 1879

New Kingdom Egyptians
The Sherden were sea pirates and were first engaged as mercenaries by Rameses II who had defeated them in a battle. He defeated them in his second year (1278 BC) when they attempted to raid Egypt's coast.
The pharaoh subsequently incorporated many of these warriors into his personal guard
Ramesses stated in his Kadesh inscriptions that he incorporated some of the Sherden into his own personal guard at the Battle of Kadesh.
Their bronze helmets were horned and surmounted by a bronze disc raised on a small shaft. They wore leather armour which was studded with metal, and was worn over a pleated kilt and secured at the waist by a girdle.
They were armed with a great bronze stabbing sword, and carried a round wooden shield with bronze studs and a bronze rim
New Kingdom Egyptians, Battle of Kadesh 1274BC

Mongols
Mongol Invasions of Japan 1274 AND 1281

Inca
The Colla tribe were noted for their coneshaped black woollen cap, called a “Chukka”, which normally had a crescent badge on the front. The uncu is always depicted as striped , divided into four vertical panels. The characteristic weapon of the Colla tribe was the bolas, which was made up of two to five fist sized stone weights wrapped in rawhide and attached to 18 inch cords. These could bring down a charging horse by entangling its legs, and is recorded as being used against Spanish cavalry during Manco’s rebellion.
These soldiers were fiercely competitive with each other, and were called “huaminca”, meaning veterans. These veterans received formal military training as part of their coming of age on reaching 14 or 15 years of age. They were taught not only how to use various weapons but also how to manufacture them. They would undergo numerous tests of courage and stamina, on successful completion of which they received assorted insignia denoting their status, including having their ears pierced, as well as being given the traditional Inca weapons of sling, mace and shield.
Incan Empire

Battle of Bunker Hill
William Prescott (February 20th, 1726 – October 13th 1795) was a Colonel in the Revolutionary War, who commanded the American forces in the Battle of Bunker Hill. Prescott is known for his order to his soldiers, “Do not fire until you see the whites of their eyes”, so that the rebel troops would shoot at the enemy at shorter ranges, and therefore more accurately and lethally, and also conserve their limited stocks of ammunition.
On the 16th of June 1775, General Artemas Ward, the commander in chief, issued an order directing Prescott and over a thousand men to proceed to Bunker Hill and erect a fortification.
The detachment started from Cambridge Common at dark, proceeding silently to Bunker Hill. There at about 11 o’clock pm, the troops commenced building the entrenchments as laid out by Captain Richard Gridley.
“The breast work or redoubt was only constructed of such earth as the party had thrown up after the middle of the night and was not more than breast high to a man of medium height. Colonel Prescott being a very tall man, six feet and two or three inches in height, his head and shoulders and a considerable portion of his body must have been exposed during the whole of the engagement. He wore a three-cornered cocked hat and a ban-yan or calico coat. After one of his men was killed by cannon ball, Prescott, perceiving that this had made some of the soldiers sick at heart, mounted tile para-pet and walked leisurely around it, cheering his soldiers by approbation and humor. His clothing was repeatedly spattered with the blood and the brains of the killed and wounded.”
Prescott’s men twice drove back the British assaults on the redoubt. When the British made a third attempt, his men were almost out of ammunition. After a final volley, he ordered a retreat from the redoubt. He was one of the last men to leave the defences, parrying bayonet thrusts with his ceremonial sabre.
Major John Pitcairn (28th December 1722 – 17th June 1775) was a Scottish military officer. He enlisted in the Marines at the age of 23, and was stationed in North America during the French and Indian War, serving at the rank of Captain.
Arriving in Boston in 1774 as part of a British occupation of the city, he fought in the 1775 battles of Lexington and Concord.
At the Battle of Bunker Hill, Major Pitcairn commanded a reserve force of about 300 Marines.
They landed at the south end of the Charlestown peninsula. When the first assaults failed, Pitcairn led his men up the hill toward the American position. Although already being wounded by two gunshots, he led his men through the rebel trenches. When he entered the trenches, he was shot four times, including the final blow, which was a wound to the head, said to have been fired by a former slave named Peter Salem.
He toppled into the arms of his son, Thomas, also a Marine officer, who cried out, "I have lost my father!" Some Marines tried to console the son, while others, overcome with emotion, openly wept. Pitcairn was carried back to Boston, where he died of his wound within hours.
He is buried at the Old North Church in Boston.
After the battle, several marines said they “had all lost a father”.
American Revolution - Battle of Bunkerhill 1775

Battle of Brandy Station
Battle of Brandy Station

2nd US Cavalry Regiment
2nd US Cavalry Regiment

84th (Coote's) Regiment of Foot
The 84th (Coote's) Regiment of Foot

Lally's (Irish) Regiment
Lally's (Irish) Regiment

Mountain Men
Whiskey, Scalps and Beaver Pelts


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