A SAVAGE AND ROMANTIC WAR

Chris Jarvis

◗ Conrad Cairns◗ Helion (2024)◗ £25◗ 138 pages (softback)◗ ISBN:9781804514559◗ helion.co.uk The Spanish First Carlist War (1833-40) offers a riot of colourful and disparate troop types, including British, French and Portugese contingents, and with significant tactical challenges in which infantry had to combine the solidity of line & column formations with the necessary skirmishing fluidity in so much mountainous and rough terrain. As usual with Helion it is attractively presented, with quality colour photos of Perry Miniatures. It covers uniforms, organisation, tactics etc, with a selection of fourteen battles for wargamers, each with a map plus commentary. Orders of battle are provided down to battalion level, but unfortunately very little on the numbers in each battle – a curious and serious omission, bearing in mind that he does give casualty…

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