A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia 1759

A plan of discipline, composed for the use of the militia of the county of Norfolk

 By William Windham, George Townshend (1st marq.)

 

Battle of Jumonville Glen

 today's anniversary - in 1754
WIKI

Ackia 1736

GO here to see a wargame for this battle fought today in 1736

John Graves Simcoe. A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers, from the End of the year 1777

to the conclusion of the late American war

Read it here

Don Troiani on 'Turn'

Don Troiani Historical Artist

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'Several folks have asked me about the dress of the Queens Rangers on the fictional TV series "Turn" (I watch it occasionally if there is nothing else on and haven't eaten a big meal first). Here is an older figure I did of a ranger. Needless to say Simcoe was not the raging psycho portrayed on the show'.

The Hessian Jägerkorps in New York and Pennsylvania, 1776-1777

here

Pouchot online

Mémoires sur la dernière guerre de l'Amérique septentrionale, entre la France et l'Angleterre [microforme] : suivis d'observations, dont plusieurs sont relatives au théatre actuel de la guerre, & de nouveaux détails sur les moeurs & les usages des sauvages, avec des cartes topographiques

by Pouchot, Pierre, 1712-1767

Images from Fort Ticonderoga (Carillon)

Visitor information

Amherst

Lt Gen Jeffrey Amherst . Colonel of 60th Royal American Regiment, c 1758

Custaloga Town French & Indian War Encampment

The Annual French and Indian War Reenactment at the Custaloga Town BSA Reservation, May 30 & 31, 2015, Carlton, PA
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Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France

Mark B Wilson found this - looks good - anyone read it?

Nobility Lost is a cultural history of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This narrative highlights the relationship between events in France and events in America and frames them dialogically, as the actors themselves experienced them at the time. Christian Ayne Crouch examines how codes of martial valor were enacted and challenged by metropolitan and colonial leaders to consider how those acts affected French-Indian relations, the culture of French military elites, ideas of male valor, and the trajectory of French colonial enterprises afterwards, in the second half of the eighteenth century. At Versailles, the conflict pertaining to the means used to prosecute war in New France would result in political and cultural crises over what constituted legitimate violence in defense of the empire. These arguments helped frame the basis for the formal French cession of its North American claims to the British in the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
While the French regular army, the troupes de terre (a late-arriving contingent to the conflict), framed warfare within highly ritualized contexts and performances of royal and personal honor that had evolved in Europe, the troupes de la marine (colonial forces with economic stakes in New France) fought to maintain colonial land and trade. A demographic disadvantage forced marines and Canadian colonial officials to accommodate Indian practices of gift giving and feasting in preparation for battle, adopt irregular methods of violence, and often work in cooperation with allied indigenous peoples, such as Abenakis, Hurons, and Nipissings.
Drawing on Native and European perspectives, Crouch shows the period of the Seven Years’ War to be one of decisive transformation for all American communities. Ultimately the augmented strife between metropolitan and colonial elites over the aims and means of warfare, Crouch argues, raised questions about the meaning and cost of empire not just in North America but in the French Atlantic and, later, resonated in France’s approach to empire-building around the globe. The French government examined the cause of the colonial debacle in New France at a corruption trial in Paris (known as l’affaire du Canada), and assigned blame. Only colonial officers were tried, and even those who were acquitted found themselves shut out of participation in new imperial projects in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. By tracing the subsequent global circumnavigation of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a decorated veteran of the French regulars, 1766–1769, Crouch shows how the lessons of New France were assimilated and new colonial enterprises were constructed based on a heightened jealousy of French honor and a corresponding fear of its loss in engagement with Native enemies and allies.

Card model Vauban style fort

Here for a 6mm scale fort.  Availabe in brick or stone finish

Fort Ti

Two more days until Fort Ticonderoga kicks off the 2015 season with a bang and bateaux! http://www.fortticonderoga.org/blog/the-french-are-rowing-to-fort-ticonderoga/

Today in history

1763 – Pontiac's War begins with Pontiac's attempt to seize Fort Detroit from the British.

New Jersey Provincials

Galloping Major provincials. Read about this unfortunate unit here

Northwest Passage (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Those Red Helions

Some Robert Rogers 1940 style as opposed to Turn