{"id":18425,"date":"2021-05-27T23:24:22","date_gmt":"2021-05-28T04:24:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/approach-to-the-battle-of-murten-1476-varusteleka-remote-military-march-2021\/"},"modified":"2021-05-27T23:24:22","modified_gmt":"2021-05-28T04:24:22","slug":"approach-to-the-battle-of-murten-1476-varusteleka-remote-military-march-2021","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/approach-to-the-battle-of-murten-1476-varusteleka-remote-military-march-2021\/","title":{"rendered":"Approach to the Battle of Murten 1476 \/ Varusteleka Remote Military March 2021"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtubomatic-video-container\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"580\" height=\"380\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wMKfLbOOtn8?controls=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Bloke, Chap and Pascal take on the @Varusteleka #remotemilitarymarch #remotemilitarymarch2021 in Switzerland, and use it as an excuse to talk about the context to the Battle of Murten (Schlacht bei Murten \/ Murtenschlacht \/ Bataille de Morat) 1476, an important battle in the Burgundian Wars, following a possible route of a Swiss peasant conscripted to fight with his pike or halberd in a Gewalthaufen formation. Fancy dress compulsory.<\/p>\n<p>Explore the route here: <a href=\"https:\/\/map.schweizmobil.ch\/?lang=en&#038;land=wanderland&#038;route=all&#038;photos=yes&#038;bgLayer=pk&#038;logo=yes&#038;season=summer&#038;resolution=2.5&#038;E=2575674&#038;N=1196841&#038;trackId=1802947933<br\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/map.schweizmobil.ch\/?lang=en&#038;land=wanderland&#038;route=all&#038;photos=yes&#038;bgLayer=pk&#038;logo=yes&#038;season=summer&#038;resolution=2.5&#038;E=2575674&#038;N=1196841&#038;trackId=1802947933<br<\/a> \/><br \/>Mike&#8217;s Varusteleka windproof smock: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.varusteleka.com\/en\/product\/sarma-windproof-smock\/34637\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.varusteleka.com\/en\/product\/sarma-windproof-smock\/34637<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spoiler: the Burgundians lost.<\/p>\n<p>Timestamps: <br \/>00:00  Intro &#8211; Bloke<br \/>03:15  Link to map<br \/>03:34  Set off<br \/>03:46  Later<br \/>04:29  Soon after<br \/>04:50  Pascal&#8217;s kit<br \/>05:27  Chappie discusses Burgundy<br \/>10:07  Continuing <br \/>10:18  Water<br \/>10:38  Mittelland &#8211; Bloke<br \/>11:03  Burgundian Wars &#8211; Chappie<br \/>14:35  Battle of Grandson \u2013 Pascal<br \/>17:50  Burgundian loot<br \/>20:58  Marching on\u2026. 1<br \/>21:14  Old Bridge at G\u00fcmmenen \u2013 Build up to the battle<br \/>23:35  Buttoned up!<br \/>24:56  Buttoned up 2!<br \/>27:38  Cavalry!<br \/>27:48  Kit discussion \u2013 Pascal<br \/>30:00  Kit discussion \u2013 Chappie<br \/>33:38  Kit discussion \u2013 Bloke<br \/>37:40  Swiss marshalling area at Ulmiz<br \/>38:21  Numbers of the various forces<br \/>39:24  Tactics<br \/>41:24  Onwards and Upwards<br \/>42:00  Carts<br \/>42:17  Map<br \/>43:09  Marching on\u2026. 2<br \/>44:19  Swiss and Burgundian lines 1<br \/>45:32  Swiss and Burgundian lines 2<br \/>46:16  Implausibility <br \/>47:00  Lunch stop!<br \/>47:29  Cheers!<br \/>47:38  At the chapel<br \/>49:28  Onward<br \/>50:38  First glimpse<br \/>51:19  Overlooking Murten \u2013 before the battle<br \/>54:55  Sore feet!<br \/>55:05  End point in sight<br \/>55:29  War memorial\/oblelisk  &#8211; Chappie<br \/>57:53  Summing up<br \/>59:02  End credits<\/p>\n<p>Patreon: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.patreon.com\/BlokeOnTheRange<\/a><br \/>Teespring: <a href=\"https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/teespring.com\/stores\/bloke-on-the-range-store<\/a><br \/>Facebook: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Blokeontherange\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bloke, Chap and Pascal take on the @Varusteleka #remotemilitarymarch #remotemilitarymarch2021 in Switzerland, and use it as an excuse to talk about the context to the Battle of Murten (Schlacht bei Murten \/ Murtenschlacht \/ Bataille de Morat) 1476, an important battle in the Burgundian Wars, following a possible route of a Swiss peasant conscripted to&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/2021\/05\/27\/approach-to-the-battle-of-murten-1476-varusteleka-remote-military-march-2021\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Read More &raquo;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Approach to the Battle of Murten 1476 \/ Varusteleka Remote Military March 2021<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":18426,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"neve_meta_sidebar":"","neve_meta_container":"","neve_meta_enable_content_width":"","neve_meta_content_width":0,"neve_meta_title_alignment":"","neve_meta_author_avatar":"","neve_post_elements_order":"","neve_meta_disable_header":"","neve_meta_disable_footer":"","neve_meta_disable_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[89,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18425","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-content","category-video"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18425"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18425\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/18426"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/surplused.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}