Friday, December 7, 2018

Meanwhile, for your 19thC Central/Eastern European Wars viewing pleasure

A link on FB to a youtube video led me to another video.... I don't speak Hungarian or Romanian but I do speak movie clips about mid-19thC battles. 

Lets start with 1877:

I love the bugler, movie character or historical heroine?

and for those who are Hungary for more, we go back to 1848:

Next best thing to painting figures and playing a game.....

8 comments:

  1. Well, you made my day! Thanks for those!

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    1. Ed, to be honest my first thought on opening the Hungarian one was "I wonder if Ed has seen this?"

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  2. Its amazing how sucked in I got when I didn't understand a single word!I'll have to come back to this on my lunch break. Thanks for posting!

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  3. So that's what the inside of my head looks like 'outside' (downloaded to YouTube).
    Thanks for sharing.
    P.S. Turn the sound down and this could be Angria, Gondal or any other Imagi-Nation ...

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    1. or my armies if I'd come across it 7 or 8 years ago when I was searching.

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  4. {{Turn the sound down and this could be Angria, Gondal or any other Imagi-Nation ...}}

    Makes me ponder, with so many rich imaginary wars to play act.. perhaps this is even potentially more appealing than reality at times, at least!

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