Dr. Alexander S. Burns
@kabinettskriege.bsky.social
Historian of the eighteenth-century Atlantic World, American Continental Army, and Military Europe. PhD WVU.
Tonight on Ken Burns's American Revolution, Rick Atkinson is going is going to tell you:
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
November 19, 2025 at 12:40 AM
Tonight on Ken Burns's American Revolution, Rick Atkinson is going is going to tell you:
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
"Muskets are mostly inaccurate beyond 80 yards...so a lot of the killing is done with the bayonet... this is really eyeball to eyeball."
The trouble is, this just isn't true. 🧵1/16
If you have a lazy Friday afternoon, I'll be streaming on youtube at 12:30pm EST, let me know your questions on eighteenth-century warfare.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS31...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS31...
Eighteenth-Century Warfare Q&A
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November 7, 2025 at 4:50 PM
If you have a lazy Friday afternoon, I'll be streaming on youtube at 12:30pm EST, let me know your questions on eighteenth-century warfare.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS31...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=uS31...
I'll be live here about 2pm EST, bring your questions about Frederick the Great and the Prussian Army.
Prussian Army Q&A
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November 2, 2025 at 6:50 PM
I'll be live here about 2pm EST, bring your questions about Frederick the Great and the Prussian Army.
Trick or Treater turnout was much lower than expected. If you have questions on eighteenth-century warfare, I'm back at it this evening. Come as you are, AMA.
Seven Years War Q&A
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November 1, 2025 at 10:22 PM
Trick or Treater turnout was much lower than expected. If you have questions on eighteenth-century warfare, I'm back at it this evening. Come as you are, AMA.
If you have questions about the Seven Years War, or eighteenth-century military history generally, stop by the stream.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjdV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjdV...
Seven Years War Q&A
YouTube video by Kabinettskriege Blog
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November 1, 2025 at 7:02 PM
If you have questions about the Seven Years War, or eighteenth-century military history generally, stop by the stream.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjdV...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjdV...
With Halloween upon us, did you know: Vampires turn 300 this year?
This year, 2025, marks the 300th anniversary of vampires haunting public imagination in Europe.
Read on for the origins of Orloc, Dracula, and of course, Nandor.
1/25
This year, 2025, marks the 300th anniversary of vampires haunting public imagination in Europe.
Read on for the origins of Orloc, Dracula, and of course, Nandor.
1/25
October 30, 2025 at 5:05 PM
With Halloween upon us, did you know: Vampires turn 300 this year?
This year, 2025, marks the 300th anniversary of vampires haunting public imagination in Europe.
Read on for the origins of Orloc, Dracula, and of course, Nandor.
1/25
This year, 2025, marks the 300th anniversary of vampires haunting public imagination in Europe.
Read on for the origins of Orloc, Dracula, and of course, Nandor.
1/25
Master of Command releases today. You should go buy it on Steam.
October 28, 2025 at 2:27 AM
Master of Command releases today. You should go buy it on Steam.
Seeing your scholarship in a peer-reviewed journal:
Broke
Seeing your scholarship on a podcast:
Woke
Seeing your scholarship on a videogame loading screen:
Bespoke
Broke
Seeing your scholarship on a podcast:
Woke
Seeing your scholarship on a videogame loading screen:
Bespoke
October 28, 2025 at 2:26 AM
Seeing your scholarship in a peer-reviewed journal:
Broke
Seeing your scholarship on a podcast:
Woke
Seeing your scholarship on a videogame loading screen:
Bespoke
Broke
Seeing your scholarship on a podcast:
Woke
Seeing your scholarship on a videogame loading screen:
Bespoke
Sir a second Nazi Group chat has hit Politico
October 21, 2025 at 2:40 AM
Sir a second Nazi Group chat has hit Politico
18th century officers when the enlisted men don't march into close range with shouldered muskets and attack with bayonets, but instead:
Fire without orders at long range
Take cover
Run out of the line of fire
Fire without orders at long range
Take cover
Run out of the line of fire
October 17, 2025 at 8:40 PM
18th century officers when the enlisted men don't march into close range with shouldered muskets and attack with bayonets, but instead:
Fire without orders at long range
Take cover
Run out of the line of fire
Fire without orders at long range
Take cover
Run out of the line of fire
Hold up
Have I heard this story before but with phrases like “ship money” and “long parliament”?
Calm down it’s a joke
Have I heard this story before but with phrases like “ship money” and “long parliament”?
Calm down it’s a joke
Well that's not how appropriations work at all
*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
*WHITE HOUSE TO TRANSFER TARIFF REVENUE TO FUND WIC: LEAVITT
October 8, 2025 at 2:41 AM
Hold up
Have I heard this story before but with phrases like “ship money” and “long parliament”?
Calm down it’s a joke
Have I heard this story before but with phrases like “ship money” and “long parliament”?
Calm down it’s a joke
President Trump:
"we have found the answer to autism, we won't let it happen anymore"
Me, back to the wall, gripping my rifle, sitting on a throne of historical uniform books next to my pile of accurately painted historical miniature soldiers:
"ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ"
"we have found the answer to autism, we won't let it happen anymore"
Me, back to the wall, gripping my rifle, sitting on a throne of historical uniform books next to my pile of accurately painted historical miniature soldiers:
"ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ"
September 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
President Trump:
"we have found the answer to autism, we won't let it happen anymore"
Me, back to the wall, gripping my rifle, sitting on a throne of historical uniform books next to my pile of accurately painted historical miniature soldiers:
"ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ"
"we have found the answer to autism, we won't let it happen anymore"
Me, back to the wall, gripping my rifle, sitting on a throne of historical uniform books next to my pile of accurately painted historical miniature soldiers:
"ΜΟΛΩΝ ΛΑΒΕ"
My latest in War on the Rocks.
Frederick the Great’s gamble at Leuthen rewrote the fate of Prussia.
The Importance of the Battle of Leuthen - War on the Rocks
In the snowy evening of Dec. 5, 1757, a Prussian grenadier sang out the chorus of the hymn Nun danket alle Gott (“Now Thank We All Our God”), and was
warontherocks.com
August 20, 2025 at 1:08 PM
My latest in War on the Rocks.
Reposted by Dr. Alexander S. Burns
“Indeed, a spectacular and unexpected victory can build up expectations in a way that makes the usual reality of attritional warfare seem almost like a defeat.”
Excellent insights from @kabinettskriege.bsky.social
Excellent insights from @kabinettskriege.bsky.social
Frederick the Great’s gamble at Leuthen rewrote the fate of Prussia.
The Importance of the Battle of Leuthen - War on the Rocks
In the snowy evening of Dec. 5, 1757, a Prussian grenadier sang out the chorus of the hymn Nun danket alle Gott (“Now Thank We All Our God”), and was
warontherocks.com
August 20, 2025 at 11:00 AM
“Indeed, a spectacular and unexpected victory can build up expectations in a way that makes the usual reality of attritional warfare seem almost like a defeat.”
Excellent insights from @kabinettskriege.bsky.social
Excellent insights from @kabinettskriege.bsky.social
I am but a poor shadow of Christopher Duffy's wit
okay @kabinettskriege.bsky.social this made me chuckle (excerpt from Infantry In Battle 1733-1783)
August 12, 2025 at 1:24 PM
I am but a poor shadow of Christopher Duffy's wit
Reposted by Dr. Alexander S. Burns
August 1, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Thanks, Ike!
the beginning of the 250th anniversaries of the American War for Independence mean that the normal stream of pop history Yankee Doodle mythology about the war is going to become an absolute deluge. So I’m arming myself with knowledge thanks to @kabinettskriege.bsky.social
June 19, 2025 at 6:11 PM
Thanks, Ike!
Reposted by Dr. Alexander S. Burns
It’s never been more INDOPACover
June 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
It’s never been more INDOPACover
@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social- thinking of you during this difficult time
June 13, 2025 at 1:45 AM
@gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social- thinking of you during this difficult time
Reposted by Dr. Alexander S. Burns
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
June 10, 2025 at 12:41 PM
ChatGPT is down but The Museum of English Rural Life still stands, proving once again that Silicon Valley cannot compete with the history of rural England and its people.
Reposted by Dr. Alexander S. Burns
A belated birthday present arrived this morning, based on an @kabinettskriege.bsky.social recommendation. The library section on the American Revolution is building up nicely… 📚 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #histbookchat
May 23, 2025 at 9:50 AM
A belated birthday present arrived this morning, based on an @kabinettskriege.bsky.social recommendation. The library section on the American Revolution is building up nicely… 📚 🇺🇸 🇬🇧 #histbookchat
Reposted by Dr. Alexander S. Burns
Just finished editing an epic episode 118 of Battlechat, which I’ll call ‘The Director’s Cut’, because when @kabinettskriege.bsky.social and I made a first attempt earlier in the week, technical gremlins nixed the whole thing! But this one’s a corker, out very soon for patrons first.
June 7, 2025 at 9:03 PM
Just finished editing an epic episode 118 of Battlechat, which I’ll call ‘The Director’s Cut’, because when @kabinettskriege.bsky.social and I made a first attempt earlier in the week, technical gremlins nixed the whole thing! But this one’s a corker, out very soon for patrons first.
Very pleased to be on Battlechat with Henry!
Battlechat 118 featuring @kabinettskriege.bsky.social Dr Alexander Burns is out now for patrons! We discuss his latest book "Infantry in Battle 1733-1783" in some detail, as well as his love of wargaming, experience as a re-enactor and his other military history work.
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Battlechat 118 with Dr Alexander Burns | Henry Hyde
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June 9, 2025 at 2:32 PM
Very pleased to be on Battlechat with Henry!