American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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Fort Welch Thuringia Germany photo Tim Mackenzie
It's the dream of all frontier reenactors to have a fort to play with and these guys have achieved it so congratulations to them. This ...
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From Don's Facebook page. The incident depicts Two Kettles Together loading a musket for her wounded husband Honyere Tehawenkarogwen ... -
https://www.gf9.com/Default.aspx?tabid=295&art_id=3070 Wargaming battles of the American war of independence While reading 'With Zea...
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.