Flintlock and tomahawk
American warfare 1690-1815 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
About Me
- Name: Ralphus
- Location: Midsomer Norton Radstock near Bath, Somerset, United Kingdom
Writing about things that turn up on my 'interest radar' - history, movies, music
Sunday, 30 August 2009
Joseph Vernet




Labels: art Seven Years War, French forces
Don o' the Drums

Labels: art Seven Years War, rangers
Fort Dobbs


Labels: forts, seven years war
Battle of Newtown 230th continues today

Labels: American Revolution, reenactment
Saturday, 29 August 2009
epee du soldat

Incidentally French belts were a yellow leather - the colour of buff coats - a mustardy yellow.
Labels: French forces, seven years war, sutlers
French backpack


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Patrice Menguy

Archives
Ordonnances...
Bibliothèque
Uniformes
Labels: French forces
Sir John Caldwell

Labels: American Revolution, first nations
Colonial Michilimackinac
Friday, 28 August 2009
Louisbourg cartoon

Labels: art Seven Years War
Thursday, 27 August 2009
More Louisbourg 1745

Labels: first nations
Wednesday, 26 August 2009
Siege of Louisbourg 1745



Further Study
Labels: King George's War, Yankees
Bradstreet and the destruction of Fort Frontenac

Labels: bateaux and canoes, seven years war
Soldiers of Misfortune
Labels: redcoats, seven years war
Tuesday, 25 August 2009
Hot Stuff

Come, follow the hero who goes to Quebec,
Jump aboard of the transport, and loose every sail,
Pay your debts at the tavern by giving leg-bail.
And ye that love fighting, shall soon have enough,
Wolfe commands us, boys; we shall give them Hot Stuff!
Up the river St. Lawrence, our troops shall advance,
To the Grenadier's March, we will teach them to dance.
Cape Breton, we've taken, and next we will try,
At their capitol, to give them, another black eye.
Vaudreuil, 'tis in vain, you pretend to look gruff,
Those are coming who know how to give you Hot Stuff!
With powder in his periwig, and snuff in his nose,
Monsieur will run down, our descent to oppose.
And the Indians will come, but our Light Infantry,
Will soon oblige them to take to a tree.
From such rascals as these, shall we fear a rebuff?
Advance, Grenadiers! And let fly your Hot Stuff!
When the Forty-Seventh Regiment is dashing ashore,
While bullets are whistling, and cannons do roar,
Say Montcalm, "Those are Shirley's - I know their lapels."
"You lie!" says Ned Botwood, "We are with Lascelles."
Though our clothing has changed, yet we scorn the powder
puff, So at you! Ye bastards! Here's give you Hot Stuff!
With Monckton and Townshend, those brave Brigadiers,
I think we shall soon have the town about their ears.
And when we have done with the mortars and the guns,
If you please, Madame Abbess, a word with your nuns.
Each soldier shall enter the convent in buff,
And then, never fear, we shall give them Hot Stuff!
Circa 1774
Labels: art Seven Years War, redcoats
Colonel Guy Johnson and Karonghyontye (Captain David Hill), 1776

Labels: American Revolution, first nations
Prints from the NYPL

The Landing of the British Forces in the Jerseys on the 20th of November 1776, Under the Command of the Rt. Honl. Lieut. Genl. Earl Cornwallis Possibly Thomas Davies (British, ca. 1737–1812) Watercolor and pen & ink, 1776 from here
and
A View of the Attack Against Fort Washington and Rebel Redouts near New York on the 16 of November 1776 by the British and Hessian Brigades Thomas Davies (British, ca. 1737–1812) Watercolor and pen & ink, 1776

Labels: American Revolution, bateaux and canoes
Seven Years War

Labels: reenactment, seven years war
Monday, 24 August 2009
King's Royal Yorkers

Labels: American Revolution, reenactment
Battle of Newtown 1779 230th anniversary event


Labels: American Revolution, reenactment
Battle of Oriskany 6 August 1777

St. Leger biography. More on the battle here
Labels: American Revolution, first nations
Wargaming the Saratoga campaign


Labels: American Revolution
62nd Foot

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La Fleur de Lyse
Labels: French forces, seven years war, sutlers
Sunday, 23 August 2009
Smoke and Fire Company


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John Collet


Labels: art Seven Years War, redcoats
bonnet a la dragon



Labels: art Seven Years War, French forces
Régiment de Languedoc 1755

History and Uniform of Le Regiment de Languedoc, 1755-1760

Labels: French forces, seven years war
Saturday, 22 August 2009
Memoirs of the Chevalier de Johnstone
Book to download here
As usual I post a little quote to whet your appetite - this passage deals with the rivalries he found among the garrison at Louisbourg
I there enjoyed a true and perfect satisfaction from the esteem and friendship of all my comrades, which was not an easy matter to secure, for the corps of the Royal Isle, composed of more than a hundred officers, was divided into three factions, the ancients of the country ; those who had come from Canada, and the reformed officers of France, who had their settlement at Louisbourg, and all these three mutually detested each other, and were continually quarrelling; but having entered the corps by declaring that I would not enter into their cabals, which did not mix me up, in any degree, in their disputes and animosities, so that I chose my friends on the whole where I found them to my taste, only taking my part to defend myself against those who wished to insult me, or who sought to embroil me in a quarrel ; thus by the strict neutrality, which I always observed, I had always the good-will of every one, and I heard the horrors which these officers, eternally in discord, came to tell me daily, the one against the other, without ever having a bias for one side or another, hearing them without answering them.
Gutenberg version here
Labels: French forces, Heroes of New France, seven years war
Adventures in the Wilderness
Labels: French forces, reenactment, seven years war