Raiders from New France Osprey

Raiders from New France

North American Forest Warfare Tactics, 17th–18th Centuries

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• Author: René Chartrand
• Illustrator: Adam Hook

Though the French and British colonies in North America began on a 'level playing field', French political conservatism and limited investment allowed the British colonies to forge ahead, pushing into territories that the French had explored deeply but failed to exploit. The subsequent survival of 'New France' can largely be attributed to an intelligent doctrine of raiding warfare developed by imaginative French officers through close contact with Indian tribes and Canadian settlers. The ground-breaking new research explored in this study indicates that, far from the ad hoc opportunism these raids seemed to represent, they were in fact the result of a deliberate plan to overcome numerical weakness by exploiting the potential of mixed parties of French soldiers, Canadian backwoodsmen and allied Indian warriors.
Supported by contemporary accounts from period documents and newly explored historical records, this study explores the 'hit-and-run' raids which kept New Englanders tied to a defensive position and ensured the continued existence of the French colonies until their eventual cession in 1763.

Fred Ray

I have a Facebook group Seven Years War Living History and we were talking about Fred Ray who also drew comics for DC.

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Compagnies franches de la Marine in the UK

Here in the UK we have a small but dedicated Marine group. Here's one of them.

Compagnies franches de la Marine in France

Excited to see there is a good Seven Years War period group in France - in Britany I think. Here's the article. They say

Hi we are a french reenactment group of french marines and civilians from 1740 to 1760.
We would like to celebrate the common history between Canada and France and the marines are perfect to do that.

Don't hesitate to ask me some question and to like our facebook page:
https://www.facebook.com/lelyssouslerable/

New France Old England by Nick Coffin

UK French and Indian war society in action this weekend at  East Carlton. Facebook page here

Bushy Run 1763

Anniversary 5th August, Video released by PHMC in 2008 as part of the Pennsylvania Trails of History