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# ![@Clint_Davey1 Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::1521446048396308482.png) @Clint_Davey1 Clint Warren-Davey

Clint Warren-Davey posts on X about spain, history, mexico, philippines the most. They currently have XXXXX followers and 1369 posts still getting attention that total XXXXXX engagements in the last XX hours.

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[countries](/list/countries)  [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 

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[spain](/topic/spain) #704, [history](/topic/history), [mexico](/topic/mexico) #1605, [philippines](/topic/philippines) #1428, [portugal](/topic/portugal) #939, [china](/topic/china), [ocean](/topic/ocean), [if you](/topic/if-you), [target](/topic/target) #2051, [musketeers](/topic/musketeers)

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### Top Social Posts
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"The Spanish conquistadors made their own gunpowder from scratch during the conquest of Mexico. How did they get sulfur By lowering one of their guys into a volcano:"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994508730441110002)  2025-11-28T20:48Z 9161 followers, 366.8K engagements


"Some people have asked why I post so much about Spanish history even though I'm not Spanish. Two main reasons: X. I've been fascinated by pike and shot warfare the conquistadors the age of discovery and similar topics for years. I'm designing games on these topics now. The more I learn the more interesting it gets. And this is the glory days of Spain. X. As a game designer I've ended up working with a lot of Spanish people. Daniel Iniesta Hernandez - @HndezDaniel Jose Rivero - @JRiveroDesigner Antonio Vaquera Garcia Jose Ramon Faura Jose Neva - @nevawargames and others. They're great to work"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995427924657500502)  2025-12-01T09:41Z 9159 followers, 91.4K engagements


"For those wondering if this is accurate - yes it is. Habsburg Spain was fighting the English Dutch French and Ottoman Empire (plus German Protestants plus conquering half the New World) all in the 16th century"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995965847681335489)  2025-12-02T21:18Z 9161 followers, 163.5K engagements


"Two nations that punch well above their weight in military history: Spain. Poland"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1984760371056689218)  2025-11-01T23:12Z 9161 followers, 538.3K engagements


"The Nazis had a strange fascination with a lot of things from history. One of them is 16th century mercenary captains from the German Peasants War. They named the 8th SS Cavalry Division after Florian Geyer a radical anti-royal and anti-clerical captain who led the "Black Company". His sword was engraved with the slogan "no cross no crown." They named the 17th SS Panzergrenadier Division after Gotz von Berlichingen a mercenary ruffian with a prosthetic iron hand and propensity for vulgar insults like "he can lick my arse." The Nazi interest in these guys is weird because they're not exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1991335636574564371)  2025-11-20T02:39Z 9160 followers, 444K engagements


"The Spanish Armada did a real number on historiography. If you speak English and you believe that Catholic Spain was horrifically evil it's partially because the historical sources from the 16th century are shaped by Elizabethan propaganda. This is called the "Black Legend" type of history. It's probably why you think the Spanish Inquisition were killing millions of people or they were burning scientists at the stake etc"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994291645861515402)  2025-11-28T06:25Z 9159 followers, 168K engagements


"The craziest thing about the Spanish plan to invade China was that it was just seen as a stepping stone to get to the Turks from an opposite direction. Like a flanking maneuvre where you just conquer an entire civilisation on the way to conquering another one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995242122904310014)  2025-11-30T21:22Z 9159 followers, 264K engagements


"One of the biggest rivalries in history that you might not expect: SPAIN versus SWEDEN Both nations were military powerhouses in the 17th century. Spanish infantry in their famous Tercio formations dominated battlefields from Italy to Flanders to Germany. Dense deep pike blocks with squares of musketeers on the corners. Roughly a 1:1 ratio of pikes to muskets and very hard to break. Sweden under Gustav Adolphus had gone through a military revolution and had begun using more flexible thinner formations with greater firepower. Swedish battalions had a roughly 2:1 ratio of muskets to pikes and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995641734932693366)  2025-12-01T23:50Z 9159 followers, 30.8K engagements


"Every nation wants to tell their own military history like they're an ELITE fighting a HORDE. Like how German generals on the Eastern Front compared themselves to Spartans at Thermopylae. It's a natural impulse. No nation wants to loudly proclaim "We outnumbered the enemy XXX to X and still lost." But some nations really do have stories like this One example is Castelnuovo 1539. The Spanish as part of the Holy League were trying to retake the Eastern Mediterranean from the Ottoman Turks. They secured the fortress of Castelnuovo in Montenegro. A Spanish garrison of about 3000 men was left"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995964209558106460)  2025-12-02T21:12Z 9159 followers, 47.6K engagements


"Another interesting battle from Spanish history - Cartagena des Indies 1741. This was during the War of Jenkin's Ear - Britain vs. Spain . Cartagena was a major port in Spanish Colombia. The British attacked it with a huge force. 30000 men and XXX ships. The largest amphibious force Britain had ever sent to the Americas. The Spanish defended the city with about 6-7000 men. A mixture of regular infantry sailors militia and some native archers. They had X ships-of-the-line and some coastal artillery. They put up a fierce fight. The British suffered one of their worst ever naval disasters. 18000"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996388778437689617)  2025-12-04T01:19Z 9161 followers, 37.6K engagements


"Fun fact. The term "fifth column" means having sympathisers spies or other people loyal to you inside an enemy nation or political party. It comes from the Spanish Civil War. In 1936 General Emilio Mora was marching on Madrid. He had four columns of troops marching towards the city. But he said the most decisive factor was the "fifth column" already inside the city - locals who sympathised with the Nationalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996391442709921924)  2025-12-04T01:29Z 9161 followers, 119.8K engagements


"Ottoman Janissaries were the shock troops of the Sultan. They used muskets swords bows and various polearms. Their ranks were drawn from European Christian children who were taken from their families in the "devshirme". They were enslaved forcibly converted to Islam and raised to be fanatically loyal to the Sultan. Being cut off from their families and homelands they had no other choice but to assimilate into their own elite military culture. The origin of the Janissaries made them even more loathsome to their enemies. Europeans in the Balkans who tried to resist Ottoman expansion were often"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996722661616243008)  2025-12-04T23:25Z 9159 followers, 114.1K engagements


"France England and the Dutch would have been pretty terrified in 1580. Spain and Portugal united in the Iberian Union. That's two pretty big empires uniting under one banner"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996845994533925141)  2025-12-05T07:35Z 9161 followers, 17.3K engagements


"There's steampunk and dieselpunk and cyberpunk. Looking at wheel-lock pistols from the 16th century the word that comes to mind is clockwork-punk"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1993820760151085206)  2025-11-26T23:14Z 9143 followers, 46K engagements


"Imagine growing up in Extremadura Spain in the early 16th century. It was a frontier region on the border with Muslim Spain for centuries. Hot dusty summers. Freezing winters. Landlocked poor harsh. Like a Spanish Wild West. Full of impoverished noble's sons who were suddenly out of work as the Reconquista had ended. Men who had trained with sword lance and crossbow since childhood. Some earned their pay fighting as mercenaries in Italy. Many of them heard the news of the discovery of the Indies. This was a Godsend for them. A way to make a name for themselves serve God and the King and make"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994152762062590162)  2025-11-27T21:14Z 9161 followers, 158.1K engagements


"In the Siege of Tenochtitlan the Spanish got pretty good at using combined arms against the Aztecs. By 1521 the Aztecs had already fought a few battles against the Spanish. They knew that the guns steel swords crossbows and horses were powerful but not invincible. Units of Aztec infantry would form up into tight defensive spear walls if cavalry was nearby. They knew that if they held their ground they could maybe resist a charge. But when the Spanish saw them doing this they would being forward their artillery and blast holes in those dense formations. We're talking narrow frontages here too"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994505697384698109)  2025-11-28T20:36Z 9158 followers, 106.2K engagements


"Spanish armies of the 16th - 17th century are fascinating and they stand out from other nations in so many little ways. Here are some examples. They favoured the "Morion" helmet - a distinctive one piece open-face helmet with a high comb on top. You look at paintings of Tenochtitlan or Lepanto and it's there. It was a good design for conquistadors off in the New World because it was cheap to manufacture and gave a bit of extra height to look intimidating. The Spanish also invented the musket - a heavy long-barrelled firearm that needed a rest to fire properly. So you have both arquebusiers"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994849959137742860)  2025-11-29T19:24Z 9161 followers, 70.3K engagements


"You know those history shows that are like "Who would win - Viking or Spartan" Well there was a battle between two famous types of warriors - Conquistadors versus Samurai. The Battle of Cagayan 1582. The Spanish garrison in the Philippines was facing attacks by Wokou (pirates) who probably included Ronin (masterless Samurai fighting as mercenaries). The Japanese had been receiving muskets from the Portuguese so these Wokou forces were fairly well-armed and quite aggressive in raiding the island of Luzon. So the Spanish governor raised a small force (40 men and a few ships) to kick them out."  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994887930683519229)  2025-11-29T21:55Z 9159 followers, 92.5K engagements


"There was a time in history where JAPAN was worried about being taken over by SPAIN. This sounds odd to us. But in the time of the Tokugawa Shogunate Spain (and Portugal) was at the height of its power. The Japanese knew that Spain had taken over Mexico and the Philippines. It looked like they were edging closer to Japan. So Tokugawa Iyesu banned Christianity. He said that the Catholic priests and missionaries who were making hundred of thousands of converts were just preparing the way for a Spanish invasion. He basically saw Japanese Catholics as a fifth column inside the country ready to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994893200469987437)  2025-11-29T22:16Z 9161 followers, 54.6K engagements


"Be Spain. Conquer Mexico. Hit the Pacific Ocean. Decide to keep going and conquer the Philippines. Next target Draw up plans to take over China then attack the Ottomans from Asia in a globe-spanning crusade. Big ambition"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995007165384589348)  2025-11-30T05:49Z 9158 followers, 292.7K engagements


"The Spaniards facing the Aztecs in 1520-21 had good reason to fight to the death. If they were captured they were dragged to the top of the Great Pyramid stripped naked forced to dance like slaves and were then sacrificed to the demon god Huitzilipoctli. They had their hearts ripped out and offered up to the sun in full view of their comrades and were denied the hallucinogenic mushrooms that normally eased the "obsidian death""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995069929750683869)  2025-11-30T09:58Z 9159 followers, 22.2K engagements


"I love this painting. It's about the Battle of Empel in 1585. The Spaniards were besieged on an island by the Dutch fleet. In a desperate situation they dug and found an icon of Our Lady of the Immaculate Conception. They prayed overnight and venerated the icon. The next day the water around the island had frozen immobilising Dutch ships and allowing the Spanish to counter-attack and win"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995276918506308095)  2025-11-30T23:41Z 9161 followers, 115.9K engagements


"Be Spain and Portugal. Start discovering and conquering new lands. Go to the Pope. "Holy Father we're getting pretty good at this whole conquering thing. We're just conquering like it's nobody's business. What should we do" "OK to keep things nice and easy we'll draw X lines on the map. You get half the planet each. Sound fair" "OK that's fair I guess. Half a planet each should be enough.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995284547408445857)  2025-12-01T00:11Z 9143 followers, 182.4K engagements


"One of my new favourite artists is Augusto Ferrer-Dalmau - @DalmauFerrer from Spain. He is one of the few modern artists to paint epic scenes from the 16th and 17th century. Take a look at this piece depicting conquistadors in the American southwest. Beautiful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995688128380895560)  2025-12-02T02:55Z 9158 followers, 17.7K engagements


"Aside from the miracle of Our Lady of Guadeloupe Mexico was converted to Catholicism by the "12 Apostles" - XX Franciscan missionaries which were sent for this exact purpose. Hernan Cortes had specifically requested these men. He wanted monks or friars not priests because he believed the Spanish priesthood to have been hopelessly corrupted. These men arrived in the 1520's and were some of the very few men that Cortes bowed down to. They were holy men and were successful in administering baptisms converting the natives en masse and establishing the Church in Mexico. God bless the Franciscans"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995691692851425521)  2025-12-02T03:09Z 9161 followers, 14.3K engagements


"The Spanish plan to invade China in 1588 was quickly dropped. We see it as crazy now. Why did they think it was even possible Well because they had conquered the entire Aztec and Inca empires with tiny numbers of men. They had a vague idea that China was a corrupt decaying over-centralised empire that would topple easily if they could take out the leadership class. This was not true. The Ming dynasty was pretty powerful. I don't think they could have taken it down with XXX men like they did to the Inca. It also wasn't ripe for civil war in quite the same way. But I think the fact that this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995702845237350887)  2025-12-02T03:53Z 9160 followers, 50.1K engagements


"One of my favourite quotes in military history is what the Spanish said at the Siege of Castelnuovo in 1539 when asked to surrender: "The captains have consulted with their officers and the officers with their soldiers; and we have all seen it fit to die for God and for the King.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995973553695719660)  2025-12-02T21:49Z 9161 followers, 203.2K engagements


"Nations become great empires because of the fighting quality of their men"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996337320619090211)  2025-12-03T21:54Z 9160 followers, 15.2K engagements


""Tell the lord Duke of Enghien that we appreciate his words. But this is a Spanish Tercio.""  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996338135605854340)  2025-12-03T21:57Z 9159 followers, 54.2K engagements


"I've been posting a lot about the Spanish empire lately. But Portugal is very cool as well. They conquered a huge empire with ridiculously small amounts of men. The whole country probably had a million people but their martial spirit and knack for exploration gave them an outsized impact on world history. With a few thousand guys and a few dozen ships became the dominant power in the entire Indian Ocean and craved out colonies stretching from Africa to India to China to Japan and beyond. One little anecdote stands out. The Portuguese were devout Catholics. They knew about the Christian"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996385964097483140)  2025-12-04T01:07Z 9149 followers, 8055 engagements


"Imagine being a Spanish conquistador or Portuguese explorer in the 16th century. You round up a few hundred guys. Veterans of the Italian wars or the Reconquista. Disinherited lesser nobles. Battle-hardened mercenaries. Tell them you're sailing to an unknown part of the world. You might not be able to pay them now but if they survive and win they will become lords of a new colony. You endure sea voyages lasting months and end up in some exotic tropical island in the Caribbean or an endless jungle in South America or the monsoon-wracked coastline of India. You have to fight battles against"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996406961550860666)  2025-12-04T02:31Z 9161 followers, 104.6K engagements


"When historians want to explain the decline and fall of empires they get into finance and logistics and other such things. Sound like accountants. Bet when you look at how empires rise it's not about prudent financial management and carefully weighing up costs and pursuing rational strategies. Empires rise when you have X X or X generations in a row of exceptionally brave ambitious and competent warriors who also enjoy national unity and religious fervour. They don't care about finances and logistics. When an empire is rising it feels like a rush of blood through the body. Like a crackle of"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996728586481684848)  2025-12-04T23:49Z 9158 followers, 22.2K engagements


"I would have done so well as a medieval general because I learned so much from playing Medieval Total War. You just march your whole army to the corner of the map and line up your spearmen there and they can't outflank you. More medieval generals should have done this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996730980162498610)  2025-12-04T23:58Z 9160 followers, 122.5K engagements


"Another fascinating battle from Spanish history - St. Quentin 1557. This was during one of several Habsburg-Valois wars. The French advanced towards the Spanish Netherlands with a force of over 25000 men. The Spanish side assembled a force to combat them. It totalled about 35000 men but not all of them were engaged at once. They were probably equal in size to the French. The Spanish force here was mostly not Spanish but included Italians Dutch and English - England was allied to Spain at the time. But this army - the Army of Flanders - fought in the Spanish style in tercio formations. They"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996843720470364636)  2025-12-05T07:26Z 9160 followers, 9933 engagements


"Another interesting thing about Cortes's expedition to conquer Mexico was that it was quasi-illegal. In 1520 the governor of Cuba - Diego Velazquez - sent a Spanish force of 1000 men under Panfilo de Narvaez to have Cortes arrested. Cortes had to leave Pedro de Alvarado in charge in Tenochtitlan while we went to confront this new threat. After a surprise attack Cortes defeated Narvaez's much larger force and convinced them to join him. He would need the extra manpower. While he was away from Tenochtitlan which the Spanish had been effectively ruling trouble had started. Alvarado - a bit of a"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997093830873805275)  2025-12-06T00:00Z 9161 followers, 22K engagements


"Gavin Robinson an historian of 17th century cavalry operations made some interesting points about cavalry logistics on his old blog: -An army couldn't really move or defend a wide area of territory without a cavalry screen. Enemy cavalry raids would cripple your supply lines and attack the civilians you were supposed to be defending so you needed your own cavalry to intercept them. The Parliamentarians in the ECW realised this as they were getting trounced in the cavalry war and started spending big money on horses just so their armies could operate in the field. -Horses need grass. They"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1993752476756140061)  2025-11-26T18:43Z 9130 followers, 61.1K engagements


"The Spanish Conquest of Mexico is probably the closest that real history gets to science fiction or fantasy. For the Spaniards it was like landing on another planet. Everything was different - the colours the smells the plants the animals. The culture they encountered was so far away from Renaissance Europe it may as well have been aliens. Read Bernal Diaz del Castillo's description of the Spanish first entering Tenochtitlan: "We came to a broad causeway and continued our march towards Mexico and when we saw all those cities and villages built in the water and other great towns on dry land"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994190165330546955)  2025-11-27T23:42Z 9116 followers, 116.7K engagements


"@quintus_publius Japanese Catholicism is definitely a vibe. And Japanese Catholics still exist They even had a Marian Apparition in the 20th century - Our Lady of Akita"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1994896507540222188)  2025-11-29T22:29Z 9122 followers, 6956 engagements


"Another famous Spanish general from the pike and shot era - Cardinal-Infante Ferdinand of Austria (lived 1609-41). As his name suggests he was a cardinal - receiving the title at aged XX. He wasn't a man of faith and didn't care much for the duties of a cardinal. His real talent was on the battlefield. By the way this was a time when "Princes of the Church" - bishops and cardinals - could lead armies. We Catholics don't have that anymore. He only fought for a short time - X years - before dying at age XX. But in that short time he proved to be a military genius. At a time when the Dutch and"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995681489904869687)  2025-12-02T02:28Z 9073 followers, 21.9K engagements


"3 knights could actually make a real difference. Most medieval battles warfare was small skirmishes and raids"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995924491730670035)  2025-12-02T18:34Z 9127 followers, 95.9K engagements


"Spain had to fight a lot of naval battles in the 16th century. Using galleys in the Mediterranean and galleons in the Atlantic and Caribbean. Just like the ancient Romans the Spanish preference in naval battle was boarding actions. They effectively tried to turn sea battles into land battles. This was because their infantry was superior. Tercio units often got roped into doing galley duty. And the Spanish knew that if they could bring the enemy within range of their arquebuses swords and pikes they would probably win. For this reason Spanish galleys had a lot more infantry crammed onto them"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995978502060081180)  2025-12-02T22:08Z 9057 followers, 10.7K engagements


"As many of you know I'm working on a pike and shot era RPG/wargame. You play as a 16th century mercenary captain in a series of narrative-driven adventures. To be clear this is a self-contained board game and it is still in prototype form. If you want to play-test just DM me your email"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995986072028037475)  2025-12-02T22:38Z 9073 followers, 2528 engagements


"In the 17th century well-disciplined musketeers could fire a 3-rank volley. The front rank would kneel the second rank crouch slightly higher and the third rank would stand. The Swedes didn't invent this system but they got pretty good at it. They would organise their battalions into X ranks. Then they could fire a 3-rank volley counter-march (front line peels off and goes to the rear) and then fire another 3-rank volley shortly after. Provided the formation wasn't disrupted it could keep doing this on a loop. This partially explains why the Swedes were renowned as having superior firepower"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1995987626508386760)  2025-12-02T22:45Z 9113 followers, 10.5K engagements


"Many know about the great rivalry between Britain and France that went on for centuries. The other great rivalry in early modern Europe was between France and Spain. This also went on for centuries. It makes sense. They share a border. They were both maritime powers competing for trade and colonies. And both aspired to be THE dominant nation in Western Europe. Where did this rivalry play out A lot of it was in Italy. Spain controlled Naples Sicily and Lombardy. France tried several times to take over these regions although their ambitions lessened after their defeat at Pavia. The two nations"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996000638678040709)  2025-12-02T23:36Z 9120 followers, 18.2K engagements


"An incredible naval battle from history is Cochin 1504. In the early 16th century the Portuguese were building up their empire in India. They had allied with the small kingdom of Cochin. Their rival the Zamorin of Calicut raised a huge force of XXX ships and 20000 men to kick out the Portuguese. This was one of the largest fleets ever assembled in the Indian Ocean. The Portuguese and their Cochin allies had about XXX men and X ships under Duarte Pacheco Pereira. They were defending a small island with some basic fortifications. In wave after wave the forces of the Zamorin assaulted the tiny"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1996394820559065505)  2025-12-04T01:43Z 9117 followers, 7107 engagements


"The Toal War series of games is good. I played Medieval Medieval X and Empire for ages when I was younger. They just had a few key things missing. No realistic command and control or operational level maneuver. You just order giant doom stacks around they go where you tell them and you usually just march directly towards the enemy army or their main city. Not much emphasis on skirmishes raids foraging and the other things that these armies actually spent their time doing. It wasn't all big set-piece battles. In fact these were rare. I get that they're more "cinematic" but they weren't the"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Clint_Davey1/status/1997182392466125125)  2025-12-06T05:52Z 9093 followers, XXX engagements