Battle of the Plains of Abraham

 

Today in 1759. Battle of the Plains of Abraham - Wikipedia

Now we have a French Revwar group in the UK it is time to get a Hessian group going.

 Reenactors portraying soldiers from the Regiment Prinz Friedrich at Fort Ticonderoga 's "Brown's Raid" living history program.

Quebec

 

Today in 1755

The Battle of Lake George was fought on 8 September 1755, in the north of the Province of New York.^[2] It was part of a campaign by the British to expel the French from North America, in the French and Indian War.^[3] General Jean-Armand, and Baron Dieskau led a variety of regulars and irregulars. William Johnson led an army consisting solely of colonial irregulars and Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) warriors under Hendrick Theyanoguin. The battle consisted of three separate phases and ended in victory for the British and their allies.^[4] Afterward, Johnson built Fort William Henry in order to consolidate his gains.
 

Fort Welch Thuringia Germany photo Tim Mackenzie

 It's the dream of all frontier reenactors to have a fort to play with and these guys have achieved it so congratulations to them. This has been the base for the German Butlers Rangers. Class.

Survey from HaT

HaT is hoping to expand their 1/32 line; their next offering looks to be ARW British Infantry. They have posted a non-binding survey to ask folks how they would want their ARW British sets configured. For those of you not familiar with HaT they did this often with their 1/72 sets.

[https://hat72.com/Crowd132British.php]

Life and Death of a French Soldier in the American War of Independence 1778-1781 by Bertrand Jost

 Life and Death of a French Soldier in the American War of Independence 1778-1781 eBook : JOST, BERTRAND: Amazon.co.uk: Kindle Store

Through extensive research, the author reconstructed the story of a young French foot soldier from his enlistment in the King’s army in 1778 to his death in November 1781, shortly after the battle of Yorktown. The story of Hans Stiegel serves as a thread to paint a broader picture of the American War of Independence through the eyes of the lower French ranks and helps answer some of the fundamental questions behind the reality of this war. Why did these men enlist? How were they treated by their aristocratic officers? What was military life like in the barracks of France, in the colonies and while on expedition in America? What was it like to cross the Atlantic on an overcrowded transport? Upon arrival, what did these uneducated men think of the Americans they encountered: soldiers, civilians and slaves? What did they think of America itself and what was it like to fight in Yorktown when one had to spend the nights digging trenches under constant enemy shelling and days fighting British sorties or storming enemy positions?To portray the war through the eyes of an enlisted soldier, the author focused on previously overlooked details in a large set of officers’ accounts, incorporated new less known and unpublished sources and studied regiment rolls to gather details and statistics on the war casualties. It took sixteen years to compile this extensive material, translate it and weave it into a chronological account.