I think the first place I heard about tapabords was the excellent and invaluable tome from Canadian costume historian Suzanne Gousse. It was in there the pic below from Diderot appeared. Also this picture of a Milicien from 1722 by de la Potherie seems to show one. Claude-Charles Bacqueville de La Potherie, "Histoire de l'Amérique septentrionale: divisée en quatre tomes,"
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Defending Fort Stanwix
Old Fort Niagara has a free zoom lecture for this on the 21 November. Check the webpage. In Defending Fort Stanwix , William L. Kidder tel...
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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...
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It's not easy photographing smaller figures but Richard has done an excellent job. These miniatures are excellent. He says 'The...
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This came out in 1984. Was an excellent addition to a small set of books.
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