American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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"First test print with the new British models. I am going to rescale the muskets a little, they look too small. The first batch will b...
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1783 image rom the British Museum who say; Description American loyalists are being murdered by Red Indians. An Indian (left) seizes by th... -
This maker of figures is working on miniatures based around the theme Braddock's disaster. First up Natives and Canadians followed by B...
Very interesting! Thanks. One of the clichés associated with the more famous West painting of the death of Wolfe was that West was revolutionary in his depiction of his heroic subject in modern clothing, rather than the toga of the Classical period.
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Penny's painting, a decade earlier, demonstrates that West's work was not quite so revolutionary as commonly claimed.