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Thursday, May 28, 2015

John Paul Jones, Fighting Sailor

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My first glimpse of this book was on the library's shelf of children's history books.  Shortly after, a friend gave a short book rep...
Saturday, May 2, 2015

Vacation at Michilimackinac, or An Incident which Spark'd my Interest in the French & Indian War

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In the summer of 2003, our family took a vacation to Michigan's Upper Peninsula. We stopped at a restaurant near Fort Michilimackinac. ...
Wednesday, April 15, 2015

Will Reynolds of Beyond the Mask

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This fellow is my first painted soldier who is not strictly historical.  His name is Will Reynolds, the hero of the movie Beyond the Mask...
Tuesday, April 7, 2015

Beyond the Mask--Charles Kemp's India Jacket

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Mir Jafar (center) and attendants John Rhys-Davies in his Indian Jacket Captain John Foote of the East India Company The Christi...
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Monday, March 30, 2015

Lord Rawdon's Volunteers of Ireland

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The Volunteers of Ireland were a Loyalist unit raised during the American Revolution by Lord Francis Rawdon.  They fought at the Battles ...
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Tuesday, March 17, 2015

Song of the Volunteers of Ireland

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Yesterday, (in Honour of the Anniversary of ST. PATRICK, tutelar Saint of that Kingdom) the regiment of Volunteers of Ireland, quartered on ...
Thursday, March 12, 2015

Green Spring--Lafayette's Order of Battle

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One of my heroes is the Marquis de Lafayette, and one of Lafayette's most important contributions was keeping British General Cornwallis...