Free Military History Resources

Maps, timelines, battlefield guides, campaign studies and source-led reference pieces from The Regimental Record. This page is built for readers who need the history without having to dig through the shop first.

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1066 & the Norman Conquest

• 1066: The Succession Crisis, Three Claimants and the Campaign for England — campaign context before Hastings.
• Stamford Bridge 1066 — the northern battle that came nineteen days before Hastings.
• Battle of Hastings 1066 — battlefield, armies, chronology, map, outcome and why William won.
• Bayeux Tapestry & the Battle of Hastings — what the embroidery shows and what it cannot prove.
• The Anglo-Saxon Shield Wall — how the system worked in battle.

Roman Britain

• Roman Britain AD 43 — the invasion and early campaign.
• When Did Roman Britain End? — why AD 410 is better understood as a process than a single evacuation date.
• Aulus Plautius, Caratacus and Claudius — key personalities.

English Civil War

• Pikemen & Musketeers in the English Civil War — weapons, formations, drill, cavalry and battlefield use.
• Marston Moor 1644 — battle study.
• Naseby 1645 — the battle and destruction of the Royalist field army.

Napoleonic Wars & Waterloo

• The Hundred Days 1815 — why Waterloo happened.
• Waterloo 1815 — map, commanders, opposing armies, chronology and Prussian intervention.
• The 1805 Naval Campaign — the road to Trafalgar.
• Trafalgar 1805 — Nelson and the battle.

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