American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
This image shows the distinct advantage the 3 banded 'Charleville' muskets had over the Brown Bess - you could clean the barrel more easily. Charleville musket wiki
Clip for today's anniversary.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
This group made their debut last weekend in Kent and they apparently went down very well. What is it about Wales that it produces really top notch groups? Image from Nigel of the Lexington Minute Company who are producing some 1812 militia for this summer's bicentennial events.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Interesting Vernet that shows a French force on the march laden with tents and equipment. More Claude-Joseph Vernet ports here - text in French. Search here for Joseph Vernet
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Thanks to Thomsomsfeld for alerting me to this book by R Chartrand - I shall have to buy it. They say In 1758, at the height of the French and Indian War, British Brigadier General John Forbes led his army on a methodical advance against Fort Duquesene, French headquarters in the Ohio valley. As his army closed in upon the fort, he sent Major Grant of the 77th Highlanders and 850 men on a reconnaissance in force against the fort. The French, alerted to this move, launched their own counter-raid. 500 French and Canadians, backed by 500 Indian allies, ambushed the highlanders and sent them fleeing back to the main army. With the success of that operation, the French planned their own raid against the English encampment at Fort Ligonier less than fifty miles away. With only 600 men, against an enemy strength of 4,000, the French & Amerindians launched a daring night attack on the heart of the enemy encampment. This book tells the complete story of these ambitious raids and counter-raids, giving in-depth detail on the forces, terrain, and tactics.
This group made their debut last weekend in Kent and they apparently went down very well. What is it about Wales that it produces really top notch groups? Image from Nigel of the Lexington Minute Company who are producing some 1812 militia for this summer's bicentennial events.
Clip for today's anniversary.
Back in the 90s-00s New York artist Thomas Payton was involved in recreating this famous unit in a Living History project. He also kept a sketchbook from those times which is well worth checking out. All pictures copyright Thomas Payton.
Clip for today's anniversary.
Canadian Militia This Pinterest page is worth looking at as he's a great interpreter of history much missed.
It's hard to get a true consensus of what the Legion wore though most agree on the basics.
This battle was fought in Pontiac's war. Read about it here and here. See it being wargamed here. The image is from the old Wolfe's Army Osprey and I don't think it's representative of what Gage's were wearing in 1763 but I like the image and Gage's were there...
These are from an unpublished article on the Legion of the United States
Another thing I used to do a lot in the late 90s was write pieces for living history magazines on the French and Indian group I was running. There were three glossy mags at that time - this one was the first and this piece was in the launch issue - it only ran to a couple. I'm not sure if this piece actually makes any sense - I think by this time I had written so many bits on the F&I scene I had lost the plot a little. My sister took the photos at Bath. You may wonder how many people you get from an article like this - well none of course but with other articles in other mags it created a surge effect that eventually wore people down to thinking maybe everyone is actually getting into the F&I ... good times.