Waterloo 200

Impossible to ignore todays anniversary - the 200th of Waterloo - of course when I reenacted the Napoleonic wars I was on the French side. Anyway as a tribute here's a pretty song on the subject.

Rebels and Redcoats Fort Niagra 2015

photos here

Battle of Fort Beauséjour 1755

Beginning June 3, 1755, a British army under Lieutenant-Colonel Robert Monckton staged out of nearby Fort Lawrence, besieged the small French garrison at Fort Beauséjour with the goal of opening the Isthmus of Chignecto to British control. Control of the isthmus was crucial to the French because it was the only gateway between Quebec and Louisbourg during the winter months.^[2] After two weeks of siege, Louis Du Pont Duchambon de Vergor, the fort's commander, capitulated on June 16.
Wiki on the battle here

“Bloody Mose”

Florida Living History, Inc.

ST. AUGUSTINE, FL – June 15, 2015 – In the early morning hours of June 26, 1740, the village of Gracia Real de Santa Teresa de Mose (mo-SAY), the first, legally sanctioned free black settlement in the continental U.S., became the site of the bloodiest battle in Florida’s part in the War of Jenkins’ Ear. That day saw Florida’s Spanish soldiers, black militia, and native Yamassee auxiliaries locked in a “clash of empires” with invading English and Scottish troops from Georgia, a battle that culminated in desperate, hand-to-hand fighting as Fort Mose, St. Augustine’s northern-most defense, burned around them. The decisive Spanish victory at “Bloody Mose” was one of the factors that ended British Georgia’s invasion of Spanish Florida.
On Saturday and Sunday, June 20-21, 2015, Florida Living History, Inc. (FLH – http://floridalivinghistory.org/ ), along with the Fort Mose Historical Society ( www.fortmose.org/ ), and Fort Mose Historic State Park ( www.floridastateparks.org/fortmose/ ), will host the sixth, annual Battle of Bloody Mose Commemoration. Now expanded to a two-day heritage Event, the award-winning, 275th-anniversary Battle of Bloody Mose historical re-enactment will take place from 10AM to 3PM at Fort Mose Historic State Park – 15 Fort Mose Trail; St. Augustine, Florida; 32084. White, black, and Native American re-enactors and volunteers from across Florida and the Southeast will participate in this heritage Event, presenting living-history demonstrations and interpretations.
•WHEN: Saturday and Sunday, June 20-21, 2015 / 10AM to 3PM

An officer of the 21st Royal North British Fuzileers c. 1775.

From here

Louisbourg

 Today's anniversary
1758 – French and Indian War: Siege of Louisbourg: James Wolfe's attack at Louisbourg, Nova Scotia commences.

Capture of the 'Alcide' and 'Lys'

from British Tars: 1740-1790

 'Today in 1755, a British fleet seizes two French warships bound for Canada, causing the French and Indian War to explode into the Seven Years War.'

"The Capture of the 'Alcide' and 'Lys', 8 June 1755," artist unknown, 18th century, National Maritime Museum.