New military history research: Ancient China, Chinese chariots, Italian chariots, English Civil War, Mongol Invasion, the Crusaders and the Portugal-Angola War

Chinese Archaeology provides an abstract of chariot and horse pit excavations in China, with the pits dating to the mid Warring-States Period of China (5^th – 3^rd centuries BC)

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An abstract on bronze casting remains from the Western Zhou Dynasty in China (11^th-8^th centuries BCE) including castings for daggers and chariot items  

 Bronze Age Dagger, Eastern Zhou Dynasty - Warring States Period; Excavated at Xinzheng, Henan Province, 1971

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An abstract that discusses excavations of a prehistoric settlement in the middle reaches of the Yangtze River in China, revealing city walls and moats among other items

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An abstract on excavations of Chinese Han Dynasty (3^rd century BC to 3^rd century AD) tombs including mention of chariot-and-horse pits and weaponry pits

Rubbing detail of chariots and horses in Stone Chamber 1 of the "Wu Family Shrines" in Shandong Province, China, dated to the 2nd C AD, made during the Eastern Han Dynasty

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An abstract on excavations of the Wei Dynasty (4^th-6^th centuries AD) Palace City discussing palace wall structures

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An abstract on research done to understand the construction of chariots in the Warring States Period of China

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An abstract of a discussion of China in 4000 BCE and powerful cultural expansions at the time 

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A full review of a book on chariots and wheeled vehicles in Italy prior to the Roman Empire

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A partial review of a book on England shortly after the 17^th century civil wars

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In the Mediterranean Historical Review, an abstract discussing the effects of the 13^th century Mongol Invasions on the Aegean World

1358 - The Mongols in Hungary 1285. Hungary. Ink and paint on pergament. Széchényi National Library, Budapest, fol. 64 verso, Inv. no. Clmae 404 (the picture is of a 19th century reproduction). From the Chronicum Pictum in Hungary's National Library. The dismounted Mongols, with captured women, are on the left, the Hungarians, with one saved woman, on the right.

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A partial review of a translation of a 13^th century treatise on how the Christian World could defeat the Saracens and retake the Holy Land

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In the African Historical Review, a partial review of a book on the Portuguese War in Angola 1961-1974

1954/1956 - Example of a Lockheed P2V-5 (P-2E) used in Portugal's colonial wars in Africa