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On Aug. 11-12, British redcoats will once again scan the eastern horizon for signs of Continental soldiers intent on capturing Old Fort Niagara.

Here are 32 new UHQ stills from episode 7×07 of Outlander ‘A Practical Guide for Time-Travelers’. Source: Far, Far Away site

Let me be clear: Fort Ti was amazing. It was everything I’d hoped for. Far away, made of stone, populated with people I like, with an event cleared of all the crap that makes me crazy. The issues t…

Images from the Battle of the Hook, 2013 national event held in Gloucester, Virginia at the historic grounds of the Inn at Warner Hall. By; Chuck Thompson of TTC Media

Non-commissioned officers “Good sergeants and Corporals being so very essential for the support of discipline and order in a Regiment, their merit must be well considered…honesty, sobriety, and a remarkable attention to every point of duty, with a neatness in their dress and a quickness in their understanding, above the common run of Soldiers…”(Cuthbertson: 5) Among the qualifications of good non-commissioned officers, corporal or sergeant, was attention to proper dress. The uniform distinction for a corporal was a shoulder knot of white cord on the right shoulder, a vestige of the extra slow match carried in earlier days. By the 1780s, regiments shifted to a single white silk epaulette. Other than the knot/epaulette, corporals wore the same uniforms as privates. Sergeants wore coats of slightly better cloth than privates, scarlet not dull madder red. Sergeants’ wore hats trimmed with silver lace and their coats trimmed with plain white lace instead of the regimental pattern. They also wore a red wool sash with a stripe of the regiment’s facing color woven in the middle. Regiments with red facings wore a white stripe. For duty on more formal occasions a sergeants carried a halberd and short sword, but for most duty in America, sergeants carried a musket with bayonet. Officers “A good figure (at least a genteel one) is a circumstance to be also considered in the young gentleman…as it must be allowed, that a well-looking Corps of Officers are as striking to the eye, as a fine body of private men…” (Cuthbertson: 2) Officers wore coats of fine scarlet faced with their regiments' color. Officers had their coats and hats trimmed in either gold or silver metallic lace depending on their regiment’s designated metal. On duty, officers carried a sword and wore a matching metal gorget around their neck. Officers tied the gorget, a vestige of medieval armor, with a silk ribbon of the facing color. Company-level officers, up to captain, wore a metallic lace epaulette on their right shoulder. Officers above captain, as well as grenadier and light company officers, wore two. Many officers in America wore plain unlaced coats and hats on duty, often carrying a light musket, or fusil.

Captain Arthur Blake was a member of the Seventeenth Light Dragoons, a British cavalry regiment that originated in 1759. The crested helmet in his left hand is embellished with the regiment's badge, the Death's Head with the motto 'Or Glory,' the final three letters of which are just visible here, upside down. Joshua Reynolds became

A Captain and a Private of the British 17th Foot as they would have appeared during the American Revolution.