Talk:Raymond A. Palmer/Archive 3

Ronald Niel Stuart
Just a note to say thankyou very much for the help you gave me with the above article, which has now passed FAC. Much appreciated, --Jackyd101 12:49, 22 July 2007 (UTC)
 * You are welcome. Raymond Palmer 23:13, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Image:Map of Europe after Treaty of Westphalia 1648.gif listed for deletion
An image or media file that you uploaded or altered, Image:Map of Europe after Treaty of Westphalia 1648.gif, has been listed at Images and media for deletion. Please see the to see why this is (you may have to search for the title of the image to find its entry), if you are interested in it not being deleted. Thank you. --Astrokey 44 14:55, 22 July 2007 (UTC)

Old Style and New Style dates
Please have a look at Talk:Old Style and New Style dates I would appreciate you input.-- Philip Baird Shearer 16:56, 30 July 2007 (UTC)

Sandbox got posted as article
User:Raymond Palmer/Sandbox with the article on War of the Grand Alliance is posted, and linked under various categories, such "Wars involving Spain".

--Rich Rostrom (Talk) 00:06, 26 August 2007 (UTC)



Image:The Marlborough Family.jpeg
Somewhat obscure question for you. You uploaded Image:The Marlborough Family.jpeg, crediting it to Johann Baptist Closterman. Are you /sure/ that it was JBC, and not his brother, John Closterman? Seems there were two brothers, both painters; JC more famous & competent than JBC, according to the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. I have (perhaps mistakenly) attributed The Marlborough Family to JC in the John Closterman article (based on a reading of the 1888ish Dictionary of National Biography, which knew of only one Closterman, JC, but which gave him his brothers DoB & DoD. Any light you can shed on the provenance of your JBC attribution gratefully received.--Tagishsimon (talk) 23:23, 10 September 2007 (UTC)

Your recent featured article
Glad I could help! I was perplexed by the lack of comments -- even an "oppose" would've made more sense than just ignoring it (although I can't really think of any reason to oppose). Congrats on the FA. Coemgenus 13:24, 12 September 2007 (UTC)

Congratulations: Went to get the sources for the casualty numbers:
 * Most interesting are the Mémoires militaires relatifs à la succession d'Espagne sous Louis XIV : extraits de la correspondance de la cour et des généraux / par le lieutenant-général de Vault, which were published in 1845 by Jean-Jacques Germain Pelet (1777-1858). In Vol. IV, p.38 we find in this reliable French source the following numbers: ca. 2000 dead and wounded; 6000 taken prisoner, 80 Colours, 54 pieces as well as the greater part of the train.
 * William Coxe: Memoirs of John Duke of Marlborough, London 1819. (German edition of 1821, vol.III, p.45) speaks about 13.000 casulaties for the French-Bavarian Forces all together
 * The Austrian General staff came in his 20 vol work on the Wars of Prince Eugene of Savoy to the conclusion that both figures are believable. Vault/Pelet just counted the actual (direct) casualties on the battle field, while Coxe included the later desertes and other prisoners. (Mayerhofer von Grünbühl / Camillo Komers von Lindenbach: Feldzüge des Prinzen Eugen von Savoyen. Bd. VIII, Wien 1882 (hrsg. von der Abteilung für Kriegsgeschichte des k. k. Kriegs-Archivs), S.381)

So far for some sources. Ca. 13.000 casualties absolute, based on a pretty close French source and supported by the qualified judgement of the Austrian General Staff. Reason enough to at least doubt the 20.000 and more numbers.

In case you ever start another project on this periode, I am sure it would be possible to work thorough all this earlier in advance. I have good access to French and German (as well as the modern English) sources and I have also witten an FA on this periode in the German Wikipedia. The articles could possibly profit this kind of teamwork. See you later. -- Memnon335bc  21:23, 20 September 2007 (UTC)

Carpi
Oh, important warning. i saw, that you plan another article on Carpi. The map, which you use in your Sandbox2 to illustrate the movement of Eugenes Army through northern Italy in 1701 is wrong. I suppose this is due the lack of detailed information in most English books on that topic. (1) There are two Carpi in Northern Italy. The one in your map is the one south of the Po River not too far away from Luzarra. But there is another one, where the battle actally took place. It is lying on the River Adige east of Verona. This place is of course situated far north of the Po River. (2) The position of Catinats army is also not total wrong, but misleading. There were actually three bodies of troops that he formed up, after Eugen had crossed the Alps. The first was still large and stood west of Lake Garda, where it opposed an also large corps of Austrian troops which Eugene had left there (but which is not on the map) Another coprs was situated southwest of Verona under Tessès command, which would eventually be engaged in the battle of Carpi. The Main Army of Catinat was still standing in second line and between these two corps. When Eugene succeeded in building a beachhead south of the Adige he feinted Catinat by threatening the Po River. Catinat thought, that the Austrians planed to get into the Catholic state and started to move his main army across the Po himself. What he didn't know was, that Eugen had already turned around. He didn't move south, but West, where he overthrow Tessès forces at Carpi.

I got some futher illustration and maps of the campaign, which I drew myself years ago. One of the Campaign, as well as some sketches of the battle itself. (and also a map of 1707) I send them to you in an E-Mail attachement, so you can correct your own map. My address is memnon335bc@freenet.de As soon as you mail me, I'll send you the stuff. Cheers, -- Memnon335bc  15:35, 21 September 2007 (UTC)

James II
I've been reworking the James II of England article, hoping to get it featured again. Since you've done so much work on other figures of that era, I was wondering if you might take a look and let me know what you think, before I submit it for FA. Thanks, Coemgenus 17:38, 6 October 2007 (UTC)
 * Thanks for the Turenne pic. Ugly, wasn't he?  Coemgenus 20:43, 27 November 2007 (UTC)

Battle of Blenheim
I reverted your edits to the above article, since they superposed Eugene of Savoy over the Battle article. I presume this was not intended? Thanks, Ian Cairns (talk) 20:02, 25 November 2007 (UTC)

Re: New username
Well, that depends on how anonymous you want to be. If you're only concerned about the current username, you can ask the bureaucrats for a rename; but this will leave links to your old account in place. If that's not acceptable, then your only option is to simply abandon this account and start a new one, though.

Hope that helps! Kirill 02:14, 1 December 2007 (UTC