I really like this image - I think we have had it on this blog already but why not publish it again. There is a really good book the Unredeemed Captive on the Deerfield raid - worth a read.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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Iroquois warrior
Artist unknown, Homme Iroquois, late 18th century, Musée National des Beaux-Arts du Québec.
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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...
An even better book on the Deerfield Raid is Evan Haefeli and Kevin Sweeney's Captors and Captives: The 1704 French and Indian Raid on Deerfield. (UMass Press, 2003) which examines the raid from the perspectives of the different participants.
ReplyDeleteSweeney and Haefeli followed up this book with a collection of primary accounts (including the oral histories from native peoples): Captive Histories: English, French, and Native Narratives of the 1704 Deerfield Raid (UMass Press, 2006).