Illustrations of history

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This magazine is for sharing artwork of historical events, places, personages, etc. Scale models and the like also welcome!

Generally speaking, actual photos of a historical item should go to !historyartifacts@lemmy.world

Photos of ruins should go to !historyruins@lemmy.world

Photos of the past should go to !HistoryPorn@lemmy.world

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[–] Sergio@slrpnk.net 5 points 6 months ago

I can’t imagine the soldiers would be too motivated to be the first ones at the top

iirc they said of Frederick the Great's army that the soldiers were more afraid of the officers behind them than the enemy in front of them.