More from Carl Dedrick

 Very nice. Thanks to Carl for these.

“Attack On the French Fort” - 54mm Swoppet Figures & Fort sold at Shell Gas Stations in the Mid 70’s… There are a few Timpo & Britain’s Toy Soldiers in there also

Marx 1/6 figures by Carl Dedrick

 Thanks Carl. I think the pics may be out of sequence. 

"I took the Fort Apache Sign off for these photos!! The Fort was made in 1967 for the Johnny West “Fort Apache Fighters” Series of Figures"

Defenders of New France by Ralph Mitchard

This is a drawing I did in 1996 as a recruiting aid. Those days we were scared of copyright issues so I generated images to use in journals posters etc. Inspired by the Russian wartime posters. 

Raiders from New France René Chartrand Adam Hook

 This is a good book. Wished I had it ten years earlier.

Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a “level playing field," French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of “New France” can largely be attributed to an intelligent doctrine of raiding warfare developed by imaginative French officers through close contact with indigenous tribes and Canadian settlers. The groundbreaking new research explored in this study indicates that, far from the opportunism these raids seemed to represent, they were in fact the result of a deliberate plan to overcome numerical weakness by exploiting the potential of mixed parties of French soldiers, Canadian backwoodsmen, and allied indigenous warriors.

Supported by contemporary accounts from period documents and newly explored historical records, this study explores the “hit-and-run” raids which kept New Englanders tied to a defensive position and ensured the continued existence of the French colonies until their eventual cession in 1763.

Native with scalp

 Mid 18th century

Harmar's campaign against the Miami.

 Today's anniversary. The end of Harmar's campaign of 1790. Read about it here https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmar_campaign

First American Regiment

From the excellent Osprey United States army 1783-1811

Compagnies franches de la Marine by Fort Ticonderoga.