Welcome!

Welcome to the new blog for WarScholar.  A Barca Longa was an 18th century ship used in the Mediterranean by the British Royal Navy often to carry dispatches.  This blog offers the same service in a sense.  I will provide you with regular information of interest to the military history scholar.  I will cover all periods and all geographic locations.  My primary focus is new discoveries and new scholarship and interpretations of history rather than rehashing what has already been said.