American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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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...
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.