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'''Warlike''' allows you to explore details and connections between fortifications, ships, battles, military museums and technology. Use it to research sites, connect to fellow enthusiasts or just plan a grand day out. Sites have descriptions, maps, photo albums, timelines, links to heritage resources, powerful filters and targeted searches.


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Part of the part of the '''[https://help.expounder.info Expounder]''' family of websites. It does not host much original content, but uses [https://wikidata.org Wikidata] as a backbone to display [https://en.wikipedia.org Wikipedia] and [https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Main_Page Wikimedia] data and link to other sites in a friendly fashion.


== Getting started ==
For example [[HMS Victory (1778)|HMS Victory]] is a first-rate ship of the line built by Chatham Dockyard and armed with [[Q30593022]]. It fought at the [[Battle of Trafalgar]] and is now a [[Q575727]] in Portsmouth in [[Hampshire]]. Nearby, [[Fort Nelson]] is a [[Q2772772]] housed in a [[Q7128307]] which had [[Q2124348]] . They are both great days out!
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[[Subterranea Britannica]] have detailed articles on the [[Gravesend Cold War Bunker]], [[Ramsgate Tunnels]] and [[Fan Bay Deep Shelter]] in their magazine [[Subterranea]], and that's just [[Kent]].
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The site is a work in progress, with plenty of rough edges. Suggestions for improvement, including new data sources or display methods, are welcome, contact [http://www.johnbray.org.uk/ John Bray]
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Revision as of 18:40, 6 November 2023

Warlike allows you to explore details and connections between fortifications, ships, battles, military museums and technology. Use it to research sites, connect to fellow enthusiasts or just plan a grand day out. Sites have descriptions, maps, photo albums, timelines, links to heritage resources, powerful filters and targeted searches.

Part of the part of the Expounder family of websites. It does not host much original content, but uses Wikidata as a backbone to display Wikipedia and Wikimedia data and link to other sites in a friendly fashion.

For example HMS Victory is a first-rate ship of the line built by Chatham Dockyard and armed with 32 pounder 56 cwt gun. It fought at the Battle of Trafalgar and is now a museum ship Q575727 in Portsmouth in Hampshire. Nearby, Fort Nelson is a military museum housed in a Palmerston Forts which had RML 12.5 inch 38 ton gun . They are both great days out!

Subterranea Britannica have detailed articles on the Gravesend Cold War Bunker, Ramsgate Tunnels and Fan Bay Deep Shelter in their magazine Subterranea, and that's just Kent.

The site is a work in progress, with plenty of rough edges. Suggestions for improvement, including new data sources or display methods, are welcome, contact John Bray

It has 63,382 pages on 22,187 sites, 0 vessels, 0 countries, 0 states, and 0 conflicts using 0 weapons and lists 3,084 organisations and 46 publications.