American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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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... -
It's not easy photographing smaller figures but Richard has done an excellent job. These miniatures are excellent. He says 'The... -
AWI Philadelphia Campaign 1777 Attack on the british Arrièregarde/ Rearguard http://bennosfiguresforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=1...
Very interesting! Thanks. One of the clichés associated with the more famous West painting of the death of Wolfe was that West was revolutionary in his depiction of his heroic subject in modern clothing, rather than the toga of the Classical period.
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Penny's painting, a decade earlier, demonstrates that West's work was not quite so revolutionary as commonly claimed.