Talk:John VII, Count of Nassau-Siegen

Latest comment: 2 years ago by Roelof Hendrickx in topic Some comments

Some comments

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This appears to be a comprehensive and worthwhile article about a very important person in military history. Please address the following concerns. Djmaschek (talk) 04:23, 20 August 2022 (UTC)Reply

  • Contributing to his father’s military reform section: The word "rifle" is used. ("He ordered standardised rifles of the same caliber" and "For rifle training, John invented the foot drill.") I strongly suspect that the word "musket" should be used instead of "rifle". When training new recruits for military service, it was normal to instruct them in the use of the musket, while the rifle was a specialist weapon.
  • In the Dutch States Army section: There is a sentence, "When John showed him and his brother William Louis his notes containing his thoughts on military training, it was ‘nun wol im anfang ein solches veracht und für Superfluum gehalten’." I cannot even guess what it means. Please translate the German into English. You could do it like this: "German phrase (English translation)".
  • There are a few more places where an untranslated German phrase is used in the text. Please add an English translation. For one or two German words, translation is not necessary.
  • I have used 'He ordered standardised rifles of the same caliber' as a translation of the German 'Er bestellte einheitliche Gewehre von gleichem Kaliber'. If the author meant to write 'musket' he would have used the word 'Muskete' instead of 'Gewehre'. In the other sentence I have changed 'rifle' into 'weapons', as that is a better translation of what the author wrote.
  • I have added translations to German quotes. I must admit though that I'm surprised how little understanding English speaking people have of other languages, even languages that are closely related to English.
Thanks for the compliments, I really appreciate it. Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 15:11, 20 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
B class. Thanks for adding the citations and for adding the English translations. I added a page number to the Behr 1854 citation. Djmaschek (talk) 03:08, 22 August 2022 (UTC)Reply
Thank you very much! Roelof Hendrickx (talk) 15:03, 22 August 2022 (UTC)Reply