Believe it or not I dont think I have featured this movie before as it is pretty terrible but this battle scene is pretty good and worth watching. It's one of the best reconstructions of linear warfare I have seen but that's just my opinion.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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Sainte-Foy 1760
Forgot this anniversary the other day. To make up for this here is a blog piece on the Battle including a 15mm wargame of it.
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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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This came out in 1984. Was an excellent addition to a small set of books. -
It's not easy photographing smaller figures but Richard has done an excellent job. These miniatures are excellent. He says 'The...
I like this site, and (all) history.
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what the older, all the better is the story of history.
When I was a rookie (1969)in the army, spoke to the captain of cowardice before the line enemy was punished by death.
He explained it to mean just standing in line.
If you bent over, dodged, or went down to the edge, punished death.
How many of us in today's time the soldiers would be able to stand in that line.
Wait soft 16 to 18 mm of lead bullets in the body.