"Yorktown: Battle for Victory" 225th Anniversary - Full Original Film

 Today's anniversary - the end of the siege of Yorktown.

North American Indian

 

Engraving of a heavily tattooed North American Indian wearing a loincloth IN: 'Historiae Canadensis, seu Novae-Franciae Libri decem, ad annum usque Christi MDCLVI' by Francois du Creux', 1664. (New France ~~ Canada; Jesuit report)

Acadian

 

From here

A 1750 account of Swedish botanist Peter Kalm, or the 18th-century letters of the Abbé Pierre Antoine Simon Maillard, may be the basis for this illustration. The artist shows a Mi’kmaq man with light hair, European features, and fictionalized accoutrements. From an engraving published in an encyclopedia by J. Grasset St. Saveur, 1796.

Mohicans - Parley

 

I have a  Facebook group Seven Years War Living History and this photo has got 250 likes so far. Popular movie. 

Four Mohawk Kings

 There is a film currently being made about this, Brendan Fraser as Francis Nicholson.  Information about the movie here

Read about them here at Wikipedia

Queen Anne's war

 I am thinking of wargaming this conflict. Anybody know if any good books on the subject? This image is from the Osprey by Chartrand/Rickman called Colonial American troops (1).

New from Galloping Major

 

Some of the forthcoming release of Provincials in short coats and cut down hats.
More on the Studio page:
www.gallopingmajorwargames.co.uk