Fort Niagara 2009 - Battle on the Beach
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American warfare 1690-1815 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Writing about things that turn up on my 'interest radar' - history, movies, music
Labels: reenactment, seven years war
Labels: forts
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Labels: period movies, seven years war
Labels: War of 1812
Labels: American Revolution, period movies
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Labels: American Revolution
Labels: rangers, reenactment, War of 1812
"In 1736, Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck, then only twentyfive years old, sailed with other colonists from Germany to Georgia. One of his intentions, expressed in a letter before he left Europe, was to bring back from America "ocular proof" of what he called "this strange new world." Idealistic nad enthusiastic, welleducated and blessed with an amazing artistic gift, von Reck kept a travel diary, wrote separate descriptions of the plants, animals and Indians he discovered in Georgia and drew some fifty watercolor and pencil sketches of what he saw. [...]
These drawings, accompanied by von Reck's writings, are important as history, science and art. As history, they give us a new and absolutely unique glimpse of Georgia as it looked when the first Europeans settled there. [...] As science, von Reck's natural history drawings represent the earliest records of several plants and animals. [...] Von Reck's drawings and writings are especially important for the light they shed on Indian life. The drawings show in detail their costumes and equipment, houses and activities. [...] As art, von Reck's drawings are as fresh, intimate and alive on the paper as the day they were drawn."
Also check this drawing out hereLabels: art, first nations
Labels: American Revolution, first nations
Labels: American Revolution
Labels: seven years war, wargames
Labels: War of 1812
Labels: first nations, War of 1812
Labels: rangers, seven years war, wargames
Labels: War of 1812, wargames