Ulster American Folkpark. My favourite place in the UK to reenact the revwar. Here is their Pennsylvania farmhouse and outbuildings.
American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
Sunday, 26 September 2021
Friday, 24 September 2021
Butler's Rangers uniforms
https://web.archive.org/web/20110706170219/http://www.butlersrangers.ca/bruniform.pdf
Here are the arguments for the current view on Butler's Rangers uniforms. It's an interesting read of about 25 pages and goes into detail on BR uniforms
Warren Johnson's description of the Mohawk Valley (New York State), 1760.
Interesting piece describing impressions of the Mohawk Valley. Here
Monday, 13 September 2021
Sunday, 12 September 2021
IROQUOIS TRAIL (1950)
The Iroquois Trail is a 1950 American Western film directed by Phil Karlson starring George Montgomery and Brenda Marshall. It is set during the French-Indian War.[2] It is an adaptation of James Fenimore Cooper's 1826 work The Last of the Mohicans, with significant alterations. As with the book, one of the major plot lines is based on the siege of Fort William Henry and the subsequent massacre.[3]
Saturday, 11 September 2021
"La Fayette" - Battle of Brandywine (September 11, 1777) Part2
Somebody blundered with the Scottish uniforms!
"La Fayette" is a 1961 French-Italian biographical film directed by Jean Dréville and starring Pascale Audret, Jack Hawkins and Orson Welles. The film depicts the life of Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette, in particular his role in the American War of Independence.
2nd Siege of Fort Henry 1782
This siege by Indians and Butler's Rangers commenced today. Wiki
There is an interesting blog piece about the siege in fiction and the exploits of heroine Betty Zane.
Friday, 10 September 2021
"THE CHRONICLES OF AMERICA: WOLFE AND MONTCALM" 1924 FRENCH & INDIAN WAR HISTORY FILM
Thanks to Jubilo for this. It's really interesting well worth a flick through. Quite epic.
Woodland Wars article
Piece I wrote in 2000 for the magazine Echoes From the Past. About woodland skirmishing in the Revwar period.
Wednesday, 8 September 2021
Tuesday, 7 September 2021
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Fort Ti (1953)
Full movie here . This was shown by the BBC in the 80s as part of their 3D night. It's not a great movie. Wiki
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This maker of figures is working on miniatures based around the theme Braddock's disaster. First up Natives and Canadians followed by B... -
I have painted a few F&I forces in this scale a few years ago. I used the Freikorps 15 range augmented by some Essex 15s. These days B... -
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...
