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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Telly "Markus" Smalls with his most loyal servants: Yuri and Yumi. All of them are eager for Major Otis Smalls to return with the 55th Free Ithaca Marines to the San Francisco Bay. #illustration #art #california

Yuri (left), Yumi (right), and Telly "Markus" Smalls look at the viewer while dressed in mid-to-late 19th-century clothing.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

My redesign of a default map made the front page of the game's Steam Workshop!

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Horses were recently spotted being used by Russia in its invasion of Ukraine. This is a move of desperation as roads crumble and fuel becomes scarce. Ukraine currently has the privilege of rescuing them and using them in a therapeutic role instead of a combat one.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

Polish cavalry mainly served as scouts for the infantry. By WWII few of them actually fought on horseback, acting mainly as a rapid-response force. Their last cavalry charge against the Nazis was a part of a combined effort with Soviet forces in modern-day Żeńsko in 1945.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 21/05/2026

Most bedouin wore a mix of British and Turkish kit during the Great Arab Revolt, with the regalia mainly being used for photoshoots. But, the keffiyah was common among the rebels and their foreign officers, and Arabs would later adopt the ordinary scarf as a national icon.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

American settlers would routinely break treaties between the First Nations and the US, and the cavalry took it upon themselves to violently put down any indigenous attempt to enforce their treaties. They played a crucial part in the genocide of countless indigenous peoples.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The Apache are groups of South Athabaskan speakers that lived in the American Southwest. Since the Mexican-American War, their existence in the shadow of the American empire has been reduced to a caricature of violence by dime novels, pulp fiction magazines, and Hollywood films.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

The Comanche used their skills on horseback to carve an undeniable legacy in the American Southwest. The iconic headwear featured on this rider, however, was actually a very late adoption, possibly spread to the nation by returning actors from Buffalo Bill's Wild West show.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Pastoralist culture adopted after the Reconquista (due to the destruction of water management resources in the Iberian Peninsula) saw a renaissance in parts of South and North America. Many enslaved people used the tools trusted to them by their masters to emancipate themselves.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Different European powers would often pitch indigenous nations against one another, sometimes explicitly incorporating them into their colonial armies. Even these veterans became the victims of the colonial projects they served.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

In the early 1500s, European states reinvested many of their imperial gains into centrally organized state militaries. The winged hussars were a mercenary band put on a permanent line item in the state budget, which soon began to recruit local Polish nobles out of convenience.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Lasting from ~700 CE to 1902 CE, the Kanem–Bornu empire's strategic control of the Lake Chad basin through an intricate government system made it one of the longest running states in the world. The empire's stability is argued to be unmatched by the modern states in its place.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

You can headcanon anyone in this series as queer. It's really fun to do, and it makes bad people mad in a pathetically funny way.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

This guy was too cool, so the government had to kill him. 😔

A Comanche rides with a Winchester rifle.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Still sick from illness (NOT the hantavirus). Repost the Shawnee Cavelier to stay healthy.

A Shawnee cavelier readies their war club.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

I'm sick, so y'all are gonna have to come up with a clever pun/engagement bait for me.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

The eastern expansion of Imperial Russia came on the backs of the Cossacks. They rode across the eastern frontier to defend the villages from raiders (after they pledged fealty to the Tsar). Russian expeditions into Siberia also enjoyed the company of the seasoned warriors.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

In between protecting the Ottoman sultan and being the premier executors of imperial authority, the Janissaries had a habit of subtly threatening open rebellion if the Sultan didn't raise their pay.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Many Chinese empires had their northern frontier defined by a vast, flat steppe that was hard to defend against. While a common way to protect against inevitable cavalry raids was to build walled settlements, many dynasties also responded by curating their own cavalry forces.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

This is the manager of the artist who runs this account. He got atomized by the haters for this. He's straight mush, now. RIP

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 27/04/2026

Colonialism and pervasive white supremacy make studying Sahelian art and archeology a serious struggle. The research I've seen of the upper-Niger basin shows that cavalry was a tool of complex state systems that organized trade and managed pastoral countryside.

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

It was the biggest empire on Earth that monopolized trade and enacted harsh laws with the threat of rape, death, and theft for any who didn't immediately submit. The fight to banish British tyranny from the land would be the stuff national myths are made from. (pic unrelated)

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Newhard Illustrations 🌻🔑🌺🦈🌷🌙🌴 @newhardillustra.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

The samurai were first cemented as a dedicated martial class during the Kamakura Shogunate. While they were proficient in several weapons, they were originally archers first and foremost, and their iconic katana more closely resembled Chinese Dao and Korean Do.

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