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    Help Identifying W Britain Soldiers

    Possibly the greatest I've ever involved myself in, nearly a decade in the making. It all started when I first arrived back in Canada for a Master's degree, a well-funded one.. and it was the first time I'd not only not been completely broke as a student, but had more disposable income than...
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    Help Identifying W Britain Soldiers

    The first goal of course is to try to find period appropriate examples of the soldiers on the cover, but then also going through some of my materials - and photographs in his book - it's clear H.G. Wells had a whole mix of these soldiers he used. So eventually it would be nice to have a few...
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    Help Identifying W Britain Soldiers

    Indeed those do appear to be the correct cavalry! Although I note one of them (on the cover) has a rectangle base rearing up. Would this place them a bit later than 1899 due to when Britain started using rectangle bases? Or is this some fanciful imagination of the artist? And as for wargames...
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    Help Identifying W Britain Soldiers

    Hi all, Long time listener, first time caller. After close to a decade, I'm just rounding the bend on completing a collection of things surrounding HG Wells' 1913 publication of Little Wars. A recent chance document find a week or two, which nearly completes the nigh-impossible document...
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