In other news in today's history:
William IIIrd, Prince of Orange and Stadtbilder of 6 Netherlandish states sets sail with 15,000 men to answer the Immortal Seven's call to "save the Nation and the [Protestant] religion"
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This sounds like it listened to a bunch of symphony piano covers from Beethoven, Mozart, and maybe some Baroque? Like Bach? And then just threw it together with no sense of theme or rhythm.
I asked Claude Fable 5.2 to write a Beethoven-style piano sonata movement in LilyPond. It wrote the score, recorded it, and made this video. Every note you see is from its source file.
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There's several French accounts during the Peninsular War and other fights again the British in which their advancing columns became more and more psyched at the Brits just standing there in silence: until they finally fire close and given a bayonet charge to rout the French.
I recall reading somewhere that experienced units would aim to *take* the first volley and shoot second; the most psychologically devastating thing was to fire first and see the enemy marching on while you had to reload, most routs happened right there
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November DevBlog is about the Austrian roster for Italian Campaign of 1796-97:
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