tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post5106511517677095669..comments2020-12-22T15:27:32.752-05:00Comments on Lady Patricia of Trakai: Report on Pennsic 38 ... and looking ahead to Pennsic 39 alreadyPatricia of Trakaihttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-39674861981781035502009-08-13T11:36:32.292-04:002009-08-13T11:36:32.292-04:00Thanks, Teleri! I am probably leaning toward the l...Thanks, Teleri! I am probably leaning toward the latter, as I want to explain what led up to this battle.<br /><br />At the end of the talk I might also spend a couple of minutes mentioning the battle's implications down to the 20th century. In World War I the Germans smacked down the Russians in a nearby battle that the Germans saw as payback for their 1410 defeat. And in the 1980s the best sports teams in the Lithuanian SSR named themselves after the battle ("Zalgiris" in Lithuanian) as a dig at their Soviet overlords.<br /><br />I hope I can pick up the military strategy stuff from books on the subject.Patricia of Trakaihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10749588384988572343noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4399415742440821431.post-84896619974459753002009-08-13T07:35:05.968-04:002009-08-13T07:35:05.968-04:00I think being a fighter might lend some insights t...I think being a fighter might lend some insights to medieval military history, but that it wouldn't be a requirement to understand it. <br /><br />But having a good grasp of milspeak would go a long way to adding credibility. I didn't know which part of the army the vanguard was until a few years ago. :) Being able to make sense of those red and blue lines on the battle maps, and then being able to explain them and why this particular bulge here is so important, would be a good skill.<br /><br />...if you're planning a blow-by-blow of the events of the day. If you're planning to put it into a larger context - a twenty-minute discussion of the battle inside of a 55-minute class on the geopolitics of the area - then you can get away with a broader view.Unknownhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/18065268006548593229noreply@blogger.com