Battle of Fort Recovery 1794

 Today's anniversary is the attack by Blue Jacket's forces. Wiki

Reconstructed Fort Recovery

The Mission (1986) Full movie

 

Wiki. Full movie here. Soundtrack was particularly good. Set in 1758 South America I saw it at the pictures. There is a battle at the end. Stars Robert de Niro and Jeremy Irons. 

Portuguese marines

Fort Mims event

 

Unconquered (1947) full movie

 Here. Cecil B. DeMille epic movie set in the Pontiac uprising of 1763.

Bunker Hill 1775

 

This battle took place today in the American Revolution. Wiki.

Fort Ticonderoga tomorrow

 Enjoy our Scots Soldier Musket Demonstration at 11:00 a.m. 

at Scots Day this Saturday!

From broadswords to bayonets, explore the arms of Scottish soldiers in the French & Indian War! See the workings of different patterns of the, “King’s Arms,” and how lessons from the French & Indian War informed British training going into the Revolutionary War. 

https://www.fortticonderoga.org/featured-events-scots-day/

#ScottishHeritage #LivingHistoryEvent #LifelongLearning

First Frontier Series

 First Frontier series

Fiction by Mike Roarke that starts in the Seven Years War and goes through Pontiac the Revolution and finally the Northwest Territory War. I have read one Shadows on the Longhouse. Can be picked up reasonably off ebay.

The final story

The first novel in the series