Thursday, 28 May 2015
Tuesday, 26 May 2015
Monday, 25 May 2015
John Graves Simcoe. A Journal of the Operations of the Queen's Rangers, from the End of the year 1777
to the conclusion of the late American war
Thursday, 21 May 2015
Don Troiani on 'Turn'
'Several folks have asked me about the dress of the Queens Rangers on the fictional TV series "Turn" (I watch it occasionally if there is nothing else on and haven't eaten a big meal first). Here is an older figure I did of a ranger. Needless to say Simcoe was not the raging psycho portrayed on the show'.
Sunday, 17 May 2015
Thursday, 14 May 2015
Pouchot online
Mémoires sur la dernière guerre de l'Amérique septentrionale, entre la France et l'Angleterre [microforme] : suivis d'observations, dont plusieurs sont
relatives au théatre actuel de la guerre, & de nouveaux détails sur
les moeurs & les usages des sauvages, avec des cartes topographiques
Tuesday, 12 May 2015
Sunday, 10 May 2015
Saturday, 9 May 2015
Nobility Lost: French and Canadian Martial Cultures, Indians, and the End of New France
Mark B Wilson found this - looks good - anyone read it?
Nobility Lost is a cultural history
of the Seven Years' War in French-claimed North America, focused on the
meanings of wartime violence and the profound impact of the encounter
between Canadian, Indian, and French cultures of war and diplomacy. This
narrative highlights the relationship between events in France and
events in America and frames them dialogically, as the actors themselves
experienced them at the time. Christian Ayne Crouch examines how codes
of martial valor were enacted and challenged by metropolitan and
colonial leaders to consider how those acts affected French-Indian
relations, the culture of French military elites, ideas of male valor,
and the trajectory of French colonial enterprises afterwards, in the
second half of the eighteenth century. At Versailles, the conflict
pertaining to the means used to prosecute war in New France would result
in political and cultural crises over what constituted legitimate
violence in defense of the empire. These arguments helped frame the
basis for the formal French cession of its North American claims to the
British in the Treaty of Paris of 1763.
While the French regular army, the troupes de terre (a late-arriving contingent to the conflict), framed warfare within highly ritualized contexts and performances of royal and personal honor that had evolved in Europe, the troupes de la marine (colonial forces with economic stakes in New France) fought to maintain colonial land and trade. A demographic disadvantage forced marines and Canadian colonial officials to accommodate Indian practices of gift giving and feasting in preparation for battle, adopt irregular methods of violence, and often work in cooperation with allied indigenous peoples, such as Abenakis, Hurons, and Nipissings.
Drawing on Native and European perspectives, Crouch shows the period of the Seven Years’ War to be one of decisive transformation for all American communities. Ultimately the augmented strife between metropolitan and colonial elites over the aims and means of warfare, Crouch argues, raised questions about the meaning and cost of empire not just in North America but in the French Atlantic and, later, resonated in France’s approach to empire-building around the globe. The French government examined the cause of the colonial debacle in New France at a corruption trial in Paris (known as l’affaire du Canada), and assigned blame. Only colonial officers were tried, and even those who were acquitted found themselves shut out of participation in new imperial projects in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. By tracing the subsequent global circumnavigation of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a decorated veteran of the French regulars, 1766–1769, Crouch shows how the lessons of New France were assimilated and new colonial enterprises were constructed based on a heightened jealousy of French honor and a corresponding fear of its loss in engagement with Native enemies and allies.
While the French regular army, the troupes de terre (a late-arriving contingent to the conflict), framed warfare within highly ritualized contexts and performances of royal and personal honor that had evolved in Europe, the troupes de la marine (colonial forces with economic stakes in New France) fought to maintain colonial land and trade. A demographic disadvantage forced marines and Canadian colonial officials to accommodate Indian practices of gift giving and feasting in preparation for battle, adopt irregular methods of violence, and often work in cooperation with allied indigenous peoples, such as Abenakis, Hurons, and Nipissings.
Drawing on Native and European perspectives, Crouch shows the period of the Seven Years’ War to be one of decisive transformation for all American communities. Ultimately the augmented strife between metropolitan and colonial elites over the aims and means of warfare, Crouch argues, raised questions about the meaning and cost of empire not just in North America but in the French Atlantic and, later, resonated in France’s approach to empire-building around the globe. The French government examined the cause of the colonial debacle in New France at a corruption trial in Paris (known as l’affaire du Canada), and assigned blame. Only colonial officers were tried, and even those who were acquitted found themselves shut out of participation in new imperial projects in the Caribbean and in the Pacific. By tracing the subsequent global circumnavigation of Louis Antoine de Bougainville, a decorated veteran of the French regulars, 1766–1769, Crouch shows how the lessons of New France were assimilated and new colonial enterprises were constructed based on a heightened jealousy of French honor and a corresponding fear of its loss in engagement with Native enemies and allies.
Thursday, 7 May 2015
Fort Ti
Two more days until Fort Ticonderoga kicks off the 2015 season with a bang and bateaux! http://
Wednesday, 6 May 2015
Saturday, 2 May 2015
Northwest Passage (1940) -- (Movie Clip) Those Red Helions
Some Robert Rogers 1940 style as opposed to Turn
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