Raiders of the Mohawk Orlo Miller 1954

 I am very excited. I managed to find a UK copy of this book for a reasonable price. It's a Canadian book for younger readers but I have been looking for it for some time. Looking forward to reading it.

Incidentally I have a small Facebook group called Raiders of the Mohawk - here

19th Century Hunting Shirts: An Interview With David Sifuentes

 As promised in last weeks video, we're finally delving into the rabbit hole that is 19th century Hunting Shirts. In this video, I'm interviewing researcher/maker David Sifuentes.

A lot of the photos and material came from David himself. I cannot thank him enough for his help with this project. If you guys want to support him, he does make hunting shirts for clients at his Facebook page here: https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?...

Wolves in the Cedars by David Wright

 

The Cutting Off Way: Indigenous Warfare in the American Revolution. American Revolution Institute

 Join us next Thursday, March 13 at 6:30 p.m. for a lecture featuring historian Wayne E. Lee of the The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill discussing Indigenous warfare before and during the American Revolution.

Throughout the Revolution, Indigenous warriors sought to surprise their targets, and the size of the target varied with the size of the attacking force. A small war party might “cut off” individuals getting water or wood or out hunting, while a larger party might attempt to attack a whole town. Once revealed by its attack, the invading war party would flee before the defenders’ reinforcements from nearby towns could organize. Sieges or battles were rare and fought mainly to save face or reputation. After discussing his “cutting-off way of war” paradigm, Dr. Lee explores Native logistics and their strategic flexibility to recast Indigenous warfare in a framework of the lived realities of Native people rather than in relation to European military strategies and practices.

Learn more and register for the lecture at: https://bit.ly/3QQVDHe

Image: War in the Peaceable Kingdom painted by Adrian Martinez, 2015. Oil on Canvas. Private Collection.

Where are your Pants? Getting Dressed with a French Canadian Voyageur

 We've seen how merchants and British Grenadiers got dressed in the 1770s, but what about some of the most colorful visitors to Michilimackinac? Join our Curator of History Craig Wilson as he walks us through the how and why a French Canadian voyageur dressed the way they did.

Sweet Liberty (a comedy) 1986

 This is a funny film about making a Hollywood period film. Wiki

Dr. Michael Burgess, an esteemed historian specializing in the American Revolution, finds his meticulously researched novel Sweet Liberty transformed into a Hollywood film production right in his hometown of Sayeville, North Carolina. Despite the pride he feels at the prospect of his work reaching a larger audience, Michael is dismayed to discover that the film adaptation strays significantly from his original story, ignoring historical accuracy and deviating from the essence of his book. As he reluctantly collaborates with the film's hack screenwriter Stanley Gould to salvage the project, Michael's world becomes even more complex when his personal life intersects with the film's glamorous cast and crew, leading to unexpected tensions and entanglements.

Starring: Alan Alda, Michael Caine, Michelle Pfeiffer Directed by: Alan Alda

From HaT soon

 https://www.hat.com/Curr3/AWI/Bx8343BDP.html

New British 1/72 sculpts

Le Régiment Gatinois, 1781 - UK

 Facebook page for their events etc, These chaps are recruiting so get in touch. 

French and Indian War - Czech Reenactment Group

 On Facebook

War On the Turtle's Back

 

this book looks interesting. Out later in the year

War the Turtle's Back examines all the campaigns fought by Woodland Indians of North America during the period of the Seven Years War (French and Indian War) and beyond from 1752 to 1766. Using contemporary documents and accounts, and recorded oral evidence, research papers and published works by native scholars and others, the book covers the wars from the various viewpoints of Indigenous Peoples putting their motives and military involvement centre stage from the Atlantic coast to the Mississippi valley. Indeed, consensual choices made by people of sovereign tribal nations unacceptable to officials of France or Britain were to eventually lead to war between these European powers.

To further understand War the Turtle's Back gives context background information on daily life, governance, beliefs, dress and the way war was carried out, from the initiation of a war party to it return home. Details of training, organisation, the role of women, campaigning and the actual tactics employed (as opposed to those portrayed in novels, movies and the media) are given.

As well as description of dress fashion at the time contemporary illustrations and photographs help give a guide to the visual appearance of Indigenous Peoples.

The book will particularly appeal to those interested in history generally, military history, the history of colonial America and American Indian history and culture. The book would also be useful to wargamers wanting to simulate indigenous warfare of the period on the tabletop, and to modellers with regard to the clothing and accoutrements.

Seminole warriors 1/72 reviewed

 Here

Expédition d'hiver 2025 Garnison de Québec

 Facebook page where there is more

Snowshoeing in winter in Québec! A great weekend shared with our friend from the Détachement de la Colonie.

Last of the Mohicans 1993 edition

 

Picked this up from our friendly neighbourhood charity shop for 60p. Didn't have a copy of this book so a welcome edition. 

Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois 2006

Glenn F. Williams

Recommended by BT Carpy on my Raiders of the Mohawk Facebook group

Winner of the 2005 Thomas Fleming Award for the Best Book in American Revolutionary War History
Finalist for the Army Historical Foundation Distinguished Writing Award
After two years of fighting, Great Britain felt confident that the American rebellion would be crushed in 1777, the "Year of the Hangman." Britain devised a bold new strategy. Turning its attention to the colonial frontiers, especially those of western New York, Pennsylvania, and Virginia, Britain enlisted its provincial rangers, Tories, and allied warriors, principally from the Iroquois Confederacy, to wage a brutal backwoods war in support of General John Burgoyne's offensive as it swept southward from Canada in an attempt to cut the colonies in half, divert the Continental Army, and weaken its presence around British-occupied New York City and Philadelphia.

Burgoyne's defeat at Saratoga sent shock waves through the British command. But the efforts along the frontier under the direction of Sir John Johnson, Colonel John Butler, and the charismatic Mohawk leader, Joseph Brant, appeared to be impairing the American ability to conduct the war. Destroying Patriot settlements and farms across hundreds of miles of frontier, the British and Indian forces threatened to reduce Continental army enlistment, and more importantly, precious food supplies. Following the massacres at the well-established colonial settlements of Wyoming, Pennsylvania, and Cherry Valley, New York, the Continental Congress persuaded General George Washington to conduct a decisive offensive to end the threat once and for all. Brewing for years, the conflict between the Iroquois and colonists would now reach its deadly climax.

Charging his troops "to not merely overrun, but destroy," Washington devised a two-prong attack to exact American revenge. The largest coordinated American military action against American Indians in the war, the campaign shifted the power in the east, ending the political and military influence of the Iroquois, forcing large numbers of loyalist to flee to Canada, and sealing Britain's fateful decision to seek victory in the south. In Year of the Hangman: George Washington's Campaign Against the Iroquois, historian Glenn F. Williams recreates the riveting events surrounding the action, including the checkered story of European and Indian alliances, the bitter frontier wars, and the bloody battles of Oriskany and Newtown.

Wedding dance at the Canadians 1723

 

Clearing Iroquoia

 Expensive but maybe the Library? E book is 50 dollars

In 1778, George Washington, Philip Schuyler, army officers, and New York officials began planning invasions against Iroquoia, the homeland of the Haudenosaunee and several other allied Indigenous nations. This invasion was one of the largest American offensives of the Revolutionary War, curated to punish the Haudenosaunee for raids against frontier settlements in New York and Pennsylvania. However, the resulting 1779 campaigns of Goose Van Schaick, Daniel Brodhead, and Generals John Sullivan and James Clinton were not simple retaliation. Clearing Iroquoia: New York’s Land Grab in the 1779 Campaigns of the American Revolution by Travis M. Bowman and Matthew A. Zembo critically examines archival materials from these campaigns to investigate the driving force behind the campaigns: removal. Through their research, Bowman and Zembo explore how colonial leaders ignored peace efforts and how George Washington ordered his officers to do the same – prioritizing the destruction of Iroquoia and placing native peoples at the lower end of a racial hierarchy to justify their actions. Using letters, journals, speeches, and reports, this book brings the buried truths to light, exploring these series of coordinated attacks that were designed to destroy Haudenosaunee political cohesion, clear the Indigenous population from the land, and replace it with a non-Indigenous one.

Outlander does 2nd Saratoga

 All the usual cliches. 

The Raid

His Majesty's 10th Foot

 Based loosely on the various skirmishes that occurred during the winter of 1775-1776 outside of Boston, "The Raid" aims to portray period skirmishing tactics to the high level of skill British units were able to operate at during this time. While no documented skirmish follows the exact timeline of this video, numerous smaller engagements are recorded from this period, such as the Skirmish at Phipps Farm (Nov 9, 1775), Skirmish at Lechmere Point (Nov 9, 1775), the Burning of Falmouth (Nov 18, 1775), the Raid on Charlestown (Jan 8, 1776), the Skirmish at Dorchester (Feb 14, 1776), and the Skirmish at Nook's Hill (Mar 8, 1776), along with more throughout the siege, including many that did not take place during the "winter months" we're attempting to portray in this video. These examples, and moreso those during The Forage War in New Jersey a year later, lend validity to practicing and executing small unit tactics as demonstrated here, allowing us to properly "reenact" engagements at the appropriate scale. Enjoy!

His Majesty's Tenth Regiment of Foot in America is a historically re-created infantry unit formed to portray the service of the British Army during the American War for Independence.

Portrait of Syacust Ukah, 1762 / Joshua Reynolds

 From here

Hessians!

From Uwe Wild

 ''My mate Markus Gärtner, who has published several books in the past contacted me and wanted to talk about figure production. Together we thought it a good idea to produce "the figures that go with the book".

Markus' favourite subject are the Germans in the American war of independence. His latest book is on sell with [Berliner Zinnfiguren](https://www.blogger.com/.../892302668.../6686538595026227430#). So far only in German, but I hope they will think about an English version too.

So, now here having the Hessians published, we wanted to have the figures. Markus himself is a collector of 54mm figures and I told him, the advantage of 3D is, everybody can have them in his favorite scale.

So here you see our first joined project - Hessen-Kassel Musketeers charging American trenches

If you are interested in the figures, you can order them in our shop at [Blackwatch](https://www.blogger.com/.../892302668.../6686538595026227430#)

I will paint them as Prussians for our actual diorama projects of Korbitz 1759 and Kolin 1757''

Buste d'un Mohawk par Sempronius Stretton, 1804.

 

Cowpens 1781

 Today's anniversary. Wiki

HaT AWI 1/72

 See the figures etc here. They look really good. 

1/72 US Volunteers Seminole War

 Here

Siege of Dunlap's Station 1791

 Today's anniversary. Wiki

River Raisin event

 

Battle Flags of the Wars for North America, 1754–1783: Foreign Armies and Regiments

Flags are an important part of the military history of colonial America. Not only are they essential artifacts that help reconstruct battles and wars and the stories of various regiments, but they are also vivid, colorful, evocative visual depictions of wars from an era before photography. In this meticulously researched book, military flag expert Steven W. Hill displays and explains the flags of the regiments which fought in North America in the French and Indian War and the American War of Independence.

Comprehensive and in-depth, Battle Flags of the Wars for North America, 1754–1783: Foreign Armies and Regiments covers the regimental flags of the major combatants in the two major wars for North American in the eighteenth century—flags carried by regiments from Britain, France, Germany, and Spain. This has long been a subject surrounded by myth, legend, and inaccuracy; the last “standard” work is more than forty years old. Hill digs deep to correct old errors and assembles a complete record of the flags, drawing from archives and artifacts, and creates a reference that will stand the test of time—not only during the coming 250th anniversary years, but far beyond.

Battle of New Orleans - January 8, 1815 by Carl Dedrick