Saturday, 3 March 2012
Battle of Brier Creek
Order of battle here. See it refought in 28mm here (in three parts).
Thursday, 1 March 2012
New France's defenders in capotes



These great images are from here - an article on the equipment and clothing of the French marines from the late 17th to mid 18thc. It's in Czech and I am not sure who the artist/author (?Vitous) is but it's worth translating through your favourite program.
Here are some of Google's translation of the captions
Figure 1
Soldier of the French Marines in 1694. Clothing soldier is reconstructed according to historical texts, based on the coureurs des bois clothing. Its off-white twill jacket is lined in blue and lined doubt that same cloth. In this case, we were inspired by the equipment supplied to these units.
Figure 2
The military jacket French marines 1694. Clothing was reconstructed according to historical texts. We were inspired by the image of huronských fighters in Capote, which left a hydrologist and cartographer Jean-Baptiste Franquelin the same time. He added, among other things "tassel" at the bottom of the hood. Ornaments can also be seen in the picture. Copper also has three buttons at the collar by the way fasovaného clothes at the time.
Sergent, tambour et soldat des Compagnies franches de la Marine de Nouvelle-France, 1685-1700

From here
À gauche, un sergent porte l'uniforme gris-blanc à doublure rouge et des bas rouges (tenue des sergents des Compagnies franches de la Marine à cette époque). Il porte une hallebarde, l'arme distinctive des sergents dans les armées européennes. Le tambour au centre porte un uniforme aux couleurs de la livrée royale. À droite, un simple soldat porte un uniforme gris-blanc doublé et parementé de bleu, couleur qui distingue les troupes de la Marine. Son chapeau est bordé d'un faux galon d'or (mélange de fil de laiton et de ficelle jaune). Il est armé d'un mousquet, d'une baïonnette et d'une épée. Reconstitutions par Michel Pétard.
Benjamin Church's company
Time to mention this reenactment group that flies the flag for the late 17th early 18th century rangers.
Reenacting King William's War

We did this in the UK for a year or so some time ago - here's a photo I took in the woods near my house of colonial rangers on patrol. We did one or two public events but it wasn't hugely popular - bit too specialist for the UK I think. Lead person is wearing a Monmouth cap
New Englanders King William's War

New Englanders of Phips' expedition to Quebec from the National Geographic magazine by Francis Back - based on wreck finds - for more on the shipwreck and is discovery go here.
Stomping Freedom
Film Storyboard A new historical film titled "Stomping Freedom", produced by Caesar's Ford Theatre, Inc. and directed by Ka...
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Our colonial Marine unit gets some last minute instruction before going to fight the British. Pinterest for more.
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From Don's Facebook page. The incident depicts Two Kettles Together loading a musket for her wounded husband Honyere Tehawenkarogwen ...
