Excellent little documentary on this, perhaps one of the most famous of sieges in the F&I war. Depicted in LotM this was a French propaganda disaster with the so-called massacre that followed it became a cause celebre for the Yankees. Recently this view of the aftermath has been challenged in such books as 'Betrayals' by Ian Steele which I recommend to anyone interested in trying to understand this event.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
The Crossing - 2000
A Christmas movie. Incidentally some UK Revwar reenactors just did some shooting for a show on the war and the production company cast an ac...
-
Our colonial Marine unit gets some last minute instruction before going to fight the British. Pinterest for more. -
This is the first stage of an excellent project. This is the corner tower of a recreation of the fort in the movie Drums Along the Mohawk...
No comments:
Post a Comment