There's a great book (titled "The Cavalry Maiden" by the publishers, against the author's will) documenting a Russian who did this for ten years as a cuirassier, and there are dozens of other examples we *know* about and probably a lot more we don't.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksan...
Before Caturday ends I'm going to slip one more in
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Z asked for a video about "crackle", which when asked she defined as "a sea creature that's not alive".
(Spoiler: the answer was "kraken".)
One reason this is a plot in The Shadow Campaigns is that the Napoleonic/ACW era in real life was like the golden age of "women in male dress serving as soldiers", after mass mobilization but before good hygiene and medical practice
Tutorial time #thethirteenthgod
www.royalroad.com/fiction/1472...
This for sure. We call it a brag shelf and every author should do it. @caseyblair.bsky.social and I share one!
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Perhaps the greatest newspaper editorial of all time
theonion.com/i-work-very-...
Going to just pick one part here to take up which is the Rousseauian notion that agriculture leads to land ownership which leads to warfare.
If that were true, we'd expect non-agricultural societies (hunter gatherers especially) to be relatively peaceful.
Instead, they're hyper-militarized. 1/
For the rest of the journey, Mercy and I practice nightly with the regalia. I warn the scouts to expect the occasional explosion; apparently my first test caused a bit of a panic. Gray says we have to...
Hello. I am a horse. I work very hard at my job of being a horse. When humans say move the heavy thing, I move the heavy thing. When humans sit on top of me and pull on my head, I carry them where the...
