02.09.08

Padre Franco

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Shown here is yet another Padre Franco. There will be a number of them in the service of Todos Santos as Frank H. kindly provided a number of them gratis and so it is only fair that they retain his family name! 

I am fairly satisfied with this paint job even though there are some readily discernible errors. One of the things I do not do as well as I would like is highlight to white. My white highlights tend to come out chalkier than I know they should because I thin the paint too much and so the pigmentation breaks down. On the positive dside, I think the highlights did come out better than the last few I have done and I am pleased with the details on the belt and the face. (Trust me, he looks better in person – cameras are not flattering!)

If you have any comments, please leave them here or drop me an email. I have disabled the "captcha" routines on the comments as the images were not showing up and I have not had the time to troubleshoot them yet. I’d be interested in what you think!

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Reaper Priest

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The figure below came from the 02950 : Townsfolk: Clergymen blister. It runs $12.99 and contains the three figures shown below. I chose the one on the left to work on.

I decided to paint him in earthy tones as the order is supposed to beone dedicated to A simple life. I used Reaper MSPs for the cloak, and face but used a Vallejo brown and ochre for the robe. The robe colors were too different in hue (I decided… *after* I finished painting him!) and so I am not pleased with the colors as much as I had hoped. He is mounted on a 3/4 inch circular base by Litko Aero with a small square in the base that contains a magnet.

He will also serve in the regiments of Todos Santos or in its allied contingents! 

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02.08.08

Character Initiative

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I came across this post as I was exploring how to use Google Reader -Saxe-Bearstein: Initiative in "Tricorne Wars" (opens in a new window)

I like the way he has handled it here for a couple of reasons. First, it gives you a way to decide on who goes first in an alternate move system but can be readily adopted for a simultaneous system as well. Second, I think the concept of inertia is a good one. Sometimes good tactical commanders are unwilling to change plans.

When I was teaching at USMA (history dept, 1984-7 and 93-6) I had a boss who had been part of a study on military leaders. The conclusion they came to was that successful battlefield leaders did not have to be bright and quick on their feet. The most important characteristic they shared was being able to visualize where they wanted to go and not being distracted by (or immobilized by) what could go wrong. Third, all of the above then ties into a command radius for each character. Combined with the characteristics in Tony Bath’s Setting Up a Wargames Campaign, this can give a lot of flavor to a series of battles! Good thoughts, Jeff!

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Scenario Tree

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Using what little I know of the French and Indian War I came up with these as possible scenarios (one of which I stole from the Duchy of Alzheim).

• Outpost Raid
• Supply Train Ambush
• Reinforcing Action
• Relief Expedition
• Punitive Expedition
• Evacuate the Civilians (From the Duchy)

I put together how a possible narrative campaign could look:

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Campaign Generators pt 2

Posted in Uncategorized at 11:43 am

Friedrich
Richard Sivel for HistoGames
Boardgame, £35.

I know many of you enjoy playing boardgames, either as a standalone exercise or as a driver for campaigns. A game I can recommend on all counts is Friedrich, designed by Richard Sivel and published by HistoGames.

While not a title you will find in Toys R Us, specialist game dealers will stock it at around £35.
The theme is the Seven Years War, it can accommodate either two, three or four players and has over twenty commander roles, happily lending itself to club projects. The play is at the strategic level and very neatly reflects the manoeuvre and supply issues of the period. It works for me on several levels, the most appealing being that I know exactly what I am trying to achieve in the game – something that doesn’t always become clear in strategic games. It offers a decent stab at ‘fog of war’ rules, so you don’t always know what you are up against and, partly as a result, there are plenty of interesting decisions. It is also highly atmospheric as it stands, but I am sure talented figure gamers can take it to the next level. Each army that moves around the map has a number of generic strength points, recorded on a separate roster. It would be the work of a few minutes to convert these points to actual units – perhaps 1/2 point for an infantry regiment, 1 for a cavalry or light, and so on. This would allow you to deploy in meaningful tabletop battles, adding that engaging dimension of there being ‘another day tomorrow’, and carrying losses through into the game system. Additionally, the board is a point to point affair, so resulting battles are readily named, adding flavour.  The game is elegantly designed, flavoursome, relatively quick to play and offers a fascinating strategic situation. I think you will like it.

Mike Siggins

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Campaign generators

Posted in Uncategorized at 11:37 am

I am currently looking at the following sources for ideas:
 

• Soldier Kings by GDW (now only available in second hand markets)
• Warlord (a much older game… you’ve probably never heard of it!)
• Friedrich from Rio Grande Games
• Wargames Campaigns by Grant
• Age of Reason rules 2nd edition
• a smattering of board games I have played over (ouch!) 35+ years….

What I am looking for is something that generates battles with a purpose. I don’t want to use a campaign system that forces me to be a combination G1 and G4. Been there, done that when I was in the army. Necessary work and pivotal to successful military operations, but not a lot of fun! I also don’t want to have to write movement orders or calculate pass times (the amount of time it takes for a unit of a given size to move through a checkpoint) or write operations orders. So in a nutshell, here’s some of the design parameters I plan on using -
 

• point to point movement or hex-based movement
• simplified logistics rules, involving depots, their generation and movement, and lines of supply of units to them
• no attrition of unit strengths, just tracking their strength in gross terms (full, 1/2 strength, or sent to the rear for rebuilding and recruiting)
• use of characters to give a lot of flavor to the mess
• something that will handle big battalions (on the scales used by Grant, Young, et al.)
• rules that will be no longer than 4-6 pages and involve minimal bookkeeping but lots of journal entries about campaigns, battles, and people

I’ll start posting some of my ideas as I go in the hopes that I can get some comments (both editorial and from the cheap seats!)

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References

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General Campaign Histories

• Battle for a Continent. H. Bird. Oxford University Press 1965.
• The French and Indian Wars. The Story of battles and forts in the wilderness. Edward P. Hamilton. New York 1962.
• Navies in the Mountains. Harrison Bird. NY. Oxford University Press 1962.
• Lake Champlain and Lake George. Frederic Van De Water. Ira J. Friedman Inc 1969
• The French And Indian War 1754-1763, The Imperial Struggle for North America. Seymour I Schwartz. Simon and Schuster Academic Reference Division, 1994.
• Guns at the Forks. Walter O’Meara. University of Pittsburg Press. 1979.
• Empire of Fortune. Francis Jennings. New York: Norton, 1988.
• Montcalm and Wolfe. Francis Parkman. Boston: Little, Brown, 1909.
• A Set of Plans and Forts in America. Reduced from Actual Surveys. John Rocque. London: Mary Rocque, 1763
• The British Empire before the American Revolution. Vols. 1 – 8. Lawrence Henry Gibson. New York: Knopf, 1930 – 1961.
• Quebec 1759, the siege and the battle. C. P. Stacey. The Macmillan company of Canada Ltd. Toronto. 1959.
• Braddock at the Monongahela. P.E. Kopperman. University of Pittsburgh Press 1977.
• Atlas of Early American history. Lester J. Cappon.
• Betrayals; Fort William Henry and the Massacre. Ian K. Steele. New York. Oxford University press 1990.
• Siege 1759. The Campaign against Niagara. Brian Leigh Dunnigan. Old Fort Niagara Association. Old Fort Niagara Assoc. 1986.
• Uniforms of the Seven Years War. John Mollo & Malcolm Mcgregor. Blandford Press 1977.
• The Wilderness War. Allan W. Eckert, Little, Brown & Company, Boston, 1978
• British maps of colonial America. William P. Cumming, University of Chicago. 1974.
• The colonial civilisation of north America. 1067 – 1763. Louis B. Wright. Eyre & Spotswood Ltd. 1949.
• The Indian Wars. Robery Utley & Wilcomb Washburn, American Heritage Publishing 1977.
• The General History of the Late War : Containing it’s Rise, Progress, and Event, in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America 5 Volumes. John Entick. E. and C. Dilly, London, UK 1764-66
• A Compleat History of the Late War, or Annual Register of its Rise, Progress, and Events in Europe, Asia, Africa, and America 2 Volumes. J. A. Wright. David Steel, London, UK 1765
• The History of the Late War in North-America, and the Islands of the West-Indies, including the Campaigns of 1763 and 1764 with His Majesty’s Indian Enemies. Thomas Mante. London: W. Strahan and T. Cadell, 1772.

Indian Histories

General

• The Indians of the western Great Lakes. W. Vernon Kinietz. University of Michigan Press. 1940.
• Warpaths. Invasions of North America. Ian K. Steele. Oxford University Press. 1994.
• The middle ground. Indians, Empires and Republics in the Great Lakes region, 1650-1815. Richard White. Cambridge University Press 1991.
• Atlas of Great Lakes Indian History. Edited by: H. Tanner, A. Hast, J. Peterson, R. Surtees. Newberry Library. Norman. University of Oklahoma Press 1987.
• Wilderness Politics and Indian Gifts. The Northern Colonial frontier 1748 – 1763. W. R. Jacobs. University of Nebraska Press. Lincoln 1950.
• Adairs History of the American Indians. Ed. Samuel Cole Williams. NY. Prom Press. 1973.
• American Woodland Indians. Michael G. Johnson and Richard Hook. Osprey Publishing London 1988.
• Sketch Book ’56 Vol. 4. Indian Allies. Ted Spring 1991.
• True Stories of New England Captives. C. Alice Baker. Heritage Books. 1990.
• 500 Nations. Alvin M. Josephy Jr. Alfred A. Knopf. New York 1994.
• A Century of Dishonour: The Early Crusade for Indian Reform. Helen Hunt Jackson. 1881.
• American Indian Tomahawks. Harold Leslie Peterson, Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, NY 1971
• "A Kind of Running Fight": Indian Battlefield Tactics. Leroy V. Eid, The Western Pennsylvania Historical Magazine, 71, 2, April 1988.
• "National" War Among Indians of Northeastern North America. Leroy V. Eid, The Canadian Review of American Studies, 16, 2, Summer 1985. Delaware, Shawnee & Ohio tribes
• Shawnee! James H. Howard. Athens. Ohio University Press 1981.
• King of the Delawares: Teedyuskung 1700 – 1763. Anthony F.C. Wallace. Philadelphia 1945.

Iroquois & Mingo

• The Iroquois Restoration: Iroquois Diplomacy on the Colonial Frontier 1701-1754. Richard Aquila. Detroit: Wayne State University Press 1983.
• The Canadian Iroquois and the Seven years war. D. Peter Macleod. Dundurn Press. Toronto & Oxford. 1996.
• The Trail of the Iroquois Indians. G. Elmore Reaman. Frederick Muller Ltd. London 1067.
• Lords of the Valley. Sir Willaim Johnson and his Mohawk Brothers. F.W. Seymour. New York and London 1930.

Potowatomis & Ottawa

• The Potowatomis: Keepers of the Fire. R. David Edmunds. Norman. University of Oaklahoma Press 1978.
• History of the Conspiracy of Pontiac and the war of the North American tribes against the English colonies after the conquest of Canada. Vols 1 & 2. Francis Parkman. Lttle Brown 1851.
• The Siege of Detroit: the journal of Pontiacs Conspiracy. Milo Milton Quaife. Lakeside Classics. Chicago. R.R. Donnelley and Sons 1958.
• Abenaki, Etchemins & Micmacs. The Abenakis and their History. Rev. Eugene Vetromile. New York. James B. Kirker. 1866.
• Micmacs and Colonists; Indian white relations in the maritimes 1713-1867. L.F.S. Upton. Vancouver, University of British Columbia Press 1978.
• The Western Abenakis of Vermont, 1600-1800 War, Migration, and the survival of an Indian people.
• Colin G. Calloway. University of Oklahoma Press: Norman and London 1990.

Cherokee, Caddo, Choctaw, Creek, Natchez and Chickasaw

• The Caddo Indians of Louisiana. C. H. Webb. Baton Rouge. Louisiana
• Archaeological Survey & Antiquities commission. 1986.
• On the convergence of Empire; the Caddo Indian confederacies 1542 – 1835.
• Foster Todd Smith. New Orleans. Tulane University 1989.
• Historic Indian tribes of Louisiana. From 1754 to the present. Fred B. Kniffen. Baton Rouge, LA: Louisiana State University Press. 1987.
• Louisiana. Ed. Alice Forties. XV Century historical Assoc. 1914.
• The Louisiana Historical Quarterly. Vol. 18. No. 4. Oct. 1935.
• American Indians of the Southeast. Michael Johnson and Richard Hook. Osprey 1995.
• History of the Choctaw, Chickasaw and Natchez Indians. H.B. Cushman. New York. Russell and Russell. 1972.
• The Chickasaws. Arrell M. Gibson. University of Oklahoma Press 1971.
• The History of the Chickasaw Nation. James H. Malone. Morton & Company 1922.
• The Creek frontier. David H. Corkran. Norman. University of Oaklahoma Press 19??
• Old Frontiers, the story of the Cherokee Indians. John Brown. Arno Press & the New York Times. 1971.
• The Cherokee Frontier. 1740-1762. David H. Corkran. Norman. University of Oaklahoma Press 1967.

Western Tribes

• The Imperial Osages. G. C. Din & A. P. Nasatir. Norman, University of Oklahoma Press. 1983.
• The Fox Wars. Edmunds and Peyser. University of Oklahoma Press. 1939.
• American Plains Indians. Jason Hook and Richard Hook. Osprey 1985.

French & Canadian forces and perspectives

• Montcalms Army. M. Windrow. Osprey Publishing 1973.
• La Marine: The French Colonial Soldier in Canada 1745-1761. Andrew Gallup, Donald F. Shaffer. Heritage Books, Inc. Bowie, Maryland 1992
• Adventures in the Wilderness: The American Journals of Louis-Antoine de Bougainville, 1756-1760. Louis-Antoine de Bougainville. Edward P. Hamilton, ed. Norman: University of Oklahoma, 1964.
• Jesuits and Savages in New France. J.H. Kennedy. Hamden Connecticut, Archon Books 1971.
• New France the last phase. 1744-1763. George Stanley. Toronto 1967.
• The Seven Years war in Canada 1756 – 1763. Compiled by Sigmund Samuel. Toronto. Ryerson press 1934.
• Montcalm’s Correspondence. Anonymous, The Report of the Public Archives of the Dominion of Canada for the Year 1929, F. A. Acland, Ottawa, Canada, 1929.
• Bougainville, Soldier and Sailor Maurice Thiery, Grayson and Grayson, London, UK 1932
• Montcalm, The Marvelous Marquis. Meriwether Liston Lewis, Vantage Press, New York, NY 1961
• An old frontier of New France. 2 Vol. Frank H. Severance. New York. Dodd Mead & Co. 1917.
• Canada, the war of the conquest. Guy Fregault. Trans. M. Cameron. 1969.
• Louisbourg: a Key to a continent. F. Downey. Prentice Hall 1965.
• Royal Fort Frontenac. Compiled & Translated by Richard A. Preston. Ed. Leopold Lamontagne. Pu. Champlain Society. Toronto 1958.
• Colonial Mobile. P.J. Hamilton. Houghton Mifflin Co. Boston 1910.
• Annals of St. Louis in its early days under the French and Spanish dominations. F. Billon. Arno Press / New York Times.
• Louisbourg from foundation to fall. 1713-1758. J.S. McClennan. The book room 1978.
• The French Soldier in Colonial America. Rene Chartrand. Museum restoration service. Ottawa 1984.
• Glorious Old Relic. The French castle and old fort Niagara. Brian Leigh Dunnigan. Old Fort Niagara assoc. 1987.
• French Infantry Regiments. 1740-1762. R.D. pengal 1982.
• The Lace Wars. Parts 1&2. L.&F. Funcken. Ward Lock. 1977.
• Historical Atlas of Canada. Vol. 1. Toronto Canada. R. Cole Harris. University of Toronto Press 1987.
• Acadia; the geography of early Acadia to 1760. Andrew Hill Clark. Madison Milwaukee & London. University of Wisconsin Press 1968.
• Louis XV’s Army. Vols. 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5. Rene Chartrand and Eugene Leliepvre. Osprey 1996 & 1997.
• Canadian Military Heritage Vols. 1 & 2. Rene Chartrand. Art Global Inc. 1995.
• Memoirs on the Late war in North America between England and France. Pierre Pouchot. Michael Cardy. Ed. Leigh Dunnigan. Old Fort Niagara Assoc. New York. 1994.
• Memoir of a French and Indian war soldier. “Jolicoeur” Charles Bonin. Ed. Andrew Gallup. Heritage Books Inc. 1993.
• The Ancien Regime. French society 1600-1750. Pierre Goubert. Orion Books. London. 1979.
• The French armies in the Seven Years war. Lee Kennett. Duke University Press. Durham. 1967.
• Sketch Book ’56 Vol. 2. The French Marines. Ted Spring 1991.
• Costume in New France 1740 to 1760. A visual dictionary. Suzanne and Andre Gousse. La Fleur de Lyse. 1997.
• Dictionary of Canadian Biography. Vol. 2 1741 – 1770. University of Toronto Press. 1974.
• The Battle of Restigouche. Judith Beattie & Bernard Pothier. Canadian Historic sites. No. 16.
• Mississippi, a History. John Ray Skates. W.W. Norton & Co. Inc. New York 1979.
• Spanish American Frontier. A.P.Whitaker. Houghton Mifflin Co. 1927.
• A Campaign of Amateurs: The Siege of Louisbourg, 1745, Raymond F. Baker, Canadian Historic Sites, Occasional Papers in Archaeology and History, # 18, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Indian and Northern Affairs, Ottawa, 1978.
• An appearance of strength The Fortifications of Louisbourg. Bruce W. Fry, Studies in Archaeology, Architecture and History, National Historic Parks and Sites Branch, Parks Canada, Environment Canada, 2 Vols.
• The Soldiers of Isle Royale, 1720-45, Allan Greer, History and Archaeology #28, National Historic Parks and Sites, Parks Canada, Environment Canada, 1979 ( Ministry of Supply and Services Canada 1979)
• Officers of Isle Royale (1744) Accommodations and Biographical Summaries. A.J.B. Johnston, Manuscript Report Number 270, Parks Canada, Department of Indian and Northern Affairs, 1978.
• Sergeant Koller in Peace and War, Louisbourg Portraits: Life in an eighteenth-century garrison town. Christopher Moore, Macmillan of Canada, 1982.
• Social Structure and Life in Louisbourg, in Canada: An Historical Magazine, Volume 1, Number 4, Robert Morgan and Terrence D. MacLean, June 1974, Published Quarterly by Holt, Rinehart and Winston of Canada, Limited in Association with McMaster University.
• Study of Military Costume at Louisbourg. Gilles Proulx, Fortress of Louisbourg National Historic Site, In-House Report, May 1971.
• A Loose and Disorderly People: British Views of the French Canadians of the Upper Great Lakes, 1760-1774. Kerry A Trask. Voyageur Magazine, The Historical Review of Brown County and Northeast Wisconsin, Vol. 5, Number 2, winter, 1988/89.
• The French Army in America Edward P. Hamilton, Museum Restoration Service, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1967
• French Arms Drill of the 18th Century, 1703-1760 J. A. Houlding, Museum Restoration Service, Alexandria Bay, NY 1988
• The Soldier Off Duty. Francois Miville-Deschenes, National Historic Parks and Sites, Environment Canada, Parks Service, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1987
• The Garrison of Quebec. Gilles Proulx, National Historic Sites, Parks Service, Environment Canada, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada 1991.
• A Different Kind of Courage: The French Mililtary and the Canadian Irregular Soldier during the Seven Years’ War. Martin L Nicolai, Canadian Historical Review, 70, 1, 1989.
• American Colonial histories and forces
• Dictionary of American Biography.
• Arms for Empire. A Military History of the British colonies in North America. 1607-1763. D.E. Leach. The Macmillan Company 1973.
• An enquiry into the causes of the alienation of the Delaware and Shawnee Indians from the British interest. Charles Thompson. London. J. Wilkie 1759.
• Fort Johnson. Historic structure report. Preservation League of New York. Sept-Oct. 1982.
• French and Indian cruelty. Peter Williamson. Thoemmes Press 1996.
• The Population of British Colonies in America before 1776. A survey of Census data. Rupert V. Wells. Princeton, New Jersey. Princeton University Press 1975.
• Dawnland Encounters. Indians and Europeans in Northern New England. Colin Galloway. University of New England. Hanover & London.
• Colonial America. A History. Richard Middleton. Blackwell Publishers Ltd. 1996.
• Sketch Book ’56 Vol. 5 The women of the French war era. Ted Spring 1991.
• The Most Extraordinary Adventures of Major Robert Stobo. Robert C. Alberts. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1965.
• That Dark and Bloody river. Alan W. Eckert. Bantam Books. 1995.
• Journal of Nicholas Cresswell, l774 -1777. Cresswell, Nicholas. Dial Press, Norwood MA., 1924.
• The northern colonial frontier. 1607 – 1763. Douglas Edward Leach. Holt, Rinehart and Winston Inc. 1966.
• Arms and Armor in Colonial America, 1526-1783 Harold L. Peterson, Stackpole Co., Harrisburg, PA 1956
• Round Shot and Rammers Harold L. Peterson, Stackpole Books, Harrisburg, PA 1969
• The Early American Way of War: Reconnaissance and Appraisal. Don Higginbotham, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 44, 1.
• Anglo-American Methods of Indian Warfare, 1676-1794. John K. Mahon, Mississippi Valley Historical Review, 45, 1958.
• Colonial Warfare in North America. Edward P. Hamilton, Proceedings of the Massachusetts Historical Society, 80, 1969.
• Sails and Steam in the Mountains : A Maritime and Military History of Lake George and Lake Champlain Russell P. Bellico, Purple Mountain Press, New York, NY 1992
• Roots of Conflict: British Armed Forces and Colonial Americans, 1677-1763. Douglas Leach

Rangers

• The battle on Snowshoes. Bob Bearor. Heritage Books. 1997.
• Robert Rogers of the Rangers. John R. Cuneo. New York: Oxford University Press, 1959.
• Reminiscences of the French War. Major General John Stark. Luther Roby. Concord NH. 1831.
• Sketch Book ’56 Vol. 1 Rogers Rangers. Ted Spring 1991.
• Sketch Book ’56 Vol. 3 Highlanders and Provincial rangers. Ted Spring 1991.
• Journals of Major Robert Rogers. Robert Rogers. London: n. p., 1765.
• North & South Carolina & Georgia
• Colonial Forts of South Carolina. 1670 – 1775. Larry E. Ivers. Columbia SC 1970.
• An Historical Account of the Rise and Progress of the Colonies of South Carolina and Georgia. Hewatt 1779
• British Drums on the Southern Frontier. The Military organisation of Georgia 1733 – 1749. Larry E. Ivers. University of North Carolina Press. Chapel Hill. 1974.
• Militiamen, Rangers and Redcoats. The military in Georgia 1754-1776. James M. Johnson. Mercer University Press. Georgia 1992.

Maryland and Delaware

• French and Indian war. Roster of Maryland troops. 1757 – 1759. Maryland Historical Magazine. Vol. 5. 1910.
• Colonial Delaware, a history. John M. Munroe. KTO Press. Kraus Thompson Organisation Ltd. Millwood NY 1978.
• Delaware Archives Military Volume 1. Public archives of Delaware. Mercantile Printing Co. 1911.
• Colonial Soldiers of the South. Murtie June Clark. Genealogical Publishing Co. Inc. 1983.

Virginia

• The Old Dominion at War; Society, Politics & Warfare in Late Colonial Virginia. Titus, James. Colombia, S. C. : University of South Carolina Press, 1991.
• New Light on Washington’s Fort Necessity. J. C. Harrington. Richmond: Eastern National Park and Monument Association, 1957.
• Major General Adam Stephen and the cause of American liberty. Henry M. Ward. University Press of Virginia.
• Duty, Honour or Country. General George Weedon. Harry M. Ward. American Philosophical Society. 1979.
• Chronicles of Border Warfare. Alexander Scott Withers, Cincinnati: The Robert Clarke Company, 1895. Reprinted by the McClain Printing Company, Parsons, West Virginia, 1994.
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Major Robert Stobo. Robert C. Alberts, Boston, Houghton Mifflin Co., 1965.
• Contrecoeur’s copy of George Washington’s journal for 1754. Donald H. Kent (ed). Eastern National Parks and Monument Association, 1989.
• Washington. Douglas Southall Freeman, New York, Macmillan Publishing Co., 1968.
• Virginia and the French and Indian Wars. Hayes Baker-Crother. Chicago 1928.
• The Virginia Frontier, 1754-1763. Louis K. Koontz. Baltimore 1925.
• The Journals of Major George Washington. Washington, George. Williamsburg, Virginia, 1754.
• Virginia’s Colonial Soldiers. Lloyd Dewitt Bostruck. Baltimore Geneolgical Publishing Co. Inc. 1988.
• Christopher Gist’s Journals with Historical, Geographical, and Ethmological Notes and Biographies of His Contemporaries. William M. Darlington, ed. Pittsburgh; n. p., 1893.
• Fort Cumberland. Allan Powell, Parsons WV, McClain Printing Co., 1989.
• The Journal of Major George Washington. Reprinted facsimile Williamsburg VA.: Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, 1959.
• The Writings of George Washington. Ed. John C. Fitzpatrick. Washington D.C., 1931- 44. Compiled by Peter Koch. 1994.
• An Extract from a Journal kept by An Officer in the Army under Col. Andw. Lewis on the expidition against Our Enemy Ohio Indians. Colonel William Fleming.
• Battle of Point Pleasant October 10, 1774. Livia Nye Simpson-Poffenbarger.

Pennsylvania

• Forts on the Pennsylvania Frontier 1753-1758. William A. Hunter. Harrisburg 1960.
• The Settler’s Forts of Western Pennsylvania. John DeMay.
• The First Rebel. N. Swanson, Farrar & Rinehart, 1937.
• Pennsylvania Provincial Soldiers in the Seven Years War. R.S. Stephenson. Pennsylvania History.Vol. 62, No. 2 (Spring 1995).
• Pennsylvania Provincial Soldiers in the Seven Years War. Matthew Ward. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (April 1995).
• Order, Discipline, and a few Cannon: Benjamin Franklin, the Association, and the Rhetoric and Practice of Boosterism. Sally F. Griffith. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (April 1992)
• The Pennsylvania Men of the American Regiment. William A. Foote. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, (January 1963).
• Connecticut & Rhode Island
• Rolls of Connecticut men in the French and Indian war 1755 – 1762. Vols. 1 & 2. Connecticut Historical Society. Heritage Books 1993.
• Israel Putnam, Pioneer, Ranger, and Major-General. William Farrand Livingston, The Knickerbocker Press, 1901.
• War and Society in Colonial Connecticut. Harold E. Selesky, Yale University Press, New Haven, CT 1990
• Rhode Island in the Colonial Wars. A list of Rhode Island soldiers and sailors in the old French and Indian war. 1755 – 1762. Howard M. Chapin. Providence Historical society 1918.

Massachusetts & Nova Scotia

• Freemen, Freeholders, and Citizen Soldiers: An Organizational History of Colonel Jonathan Bagley’s Regiment, 1755-1760. Brenton C Kemmer. Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie Maryland 1997
• Redcoats, Yankees and Allies. Brenton C. Kemmer. Heritage Books. 1998.
• A Peoples army. Massachusetts soldiers and society in the seven years war. F. Anderson. University of North carolina Press. 1984.
• Massachusetts Officers in the French and Indian wars. 1748 – 1763. Edited by Nancy S. Voye. Society of Colonial wars of Massachusetts. 1975.
• Massachusetts officers and soldiers in the French and Indian wars. 1755 – 1756. Ed. David K. Goss & David Zarowin. New England geneological Society. 1985.
• The History of Massachusetts. The Provincial Period. John Stetson Barry. Boston 1856. Phillips Sampson and co.
• Commonwealth History of Massachusetts. Vol. 2 . Ed. Albert Bushnell Hart. The States History Company. 1928.
• Nova Scotia’s Massachusetts. 1630 – 1784. George A. Rawlyk. McGill Queens University Press. Montreal and London 1978.
• Why Did Colonial New Englanders Make Bad Soldiers? Contractual Principles and Military Conduct During the Seven Years War. Fred Anderson, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 38, 1981.
• A People’s Army: Provincial Military Service in Massachusetts during the Seven Years’ War. Fred Anderson, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 40, 1983.

New Jersey

• The Story of the Jersey blues. Col. C. Malcolm B. Gilman. Trenton Printing Co. 1962.
• History of the Oranges to 1921. Vol. 1. David Lawrence Pierson. Lewis historical publishing Co. 1922.
• Laws of the Royal Colony of New Jersey 1746-1760 Vol. III. Bernard Bush. New Jersey Archives. Series 3. NJ State Library. Bureau of archives & history. Trenton NJ. 1980.
• New Jersey in the Colonial Wars. An Address Before the Society of Colonial Wars in the State of New Jersey at the University Club, New York by The Hon. Richard Wayne Parker. December 19, 1919.
• Origin and Sketch of the "Jersey Blues" Proceedings of the Historical Society of New Jersey. William H. Benedict. New Brunswick. N. J.
• The French-and-Indian War Fort in Sussex County. Proceedings of the Historical Society of New Jersey," Vol. XIII, No. 2 (April 1928) Sussex County Sesqui-Centennial September 2, 1903. Ed. Jacob L. Bunnell

New York

• Muster Rolls of New York Provincial troops 1755 – 1764. E. F. De Lancey. Heritage Books. 1990.
• Mohawk Baronet: Sir William Johnson of New York. James T. Flexner. Boston: Little, Brown, 1959.
• Fort William Henry – a history. Stanley M. Gifford. Bullard Press. Glen Falls. 1955.
• Relief is greatly wanted. The battle for Fort William Henry. Edward J. Dodge. Heritage Books. 1998.
• Old Fort Edward. William H. Hill 1929.
• Crown Point. T. D. Titus. Crown Point State historic site. 1993.
• Joseph Frye’s Journal and Map of the Siege of Fort William Henry, 1757. James L., Kochan, ed., The Bulletin of the Fort Ticonderoga Museum, 15.
• An Eyewitness Account by James Furnis of the Surrender of Fort William Henry, August, 1757. William S., Ewing, ed., New York History, 42, 1961.
• A Message to Fort William Henry: An Incident in the French and Indian War. Wilbur R. Jacobs, Huntington Library Quarterly, 16, 1953.

New Hampshire / Vermont / Maine

• A House of hewen timber. Fort Western on the Kennebec. Jay Adams. Fort Western Museum. 1990.
• Lovewell’s Men. Ezra Stearns, NEHG Register Vol. 63, July 1909.
• The Adventure of Captain Lovewell. Frederic Kidder NEHG Register Vol. 7, Jan. 1853.
• Pigwacket. George Evans, Conway, N.H. Historical Society 1939.

British forces, histories and perspectives

• Amherst Papers, 1756-1763, The Southern Sector: Dispatches from South Carolina, Virginia and His Majesty’s Superintendent of Indian Affairs. Edith Mays.
• Amherst and Canada. Louis des Cognets Jr. Princeton New Jersey 1962.
• Wolfes Army. Robin May and G. A. Embleton. Osprey Publishing 1989.
• Military Affairs in North America, 1748 – 1765: Selected Documents from the Cumberland Papers in Windsor Castle. Stanley M. Pargellis. New York, 1936; reprint, New York, 1969.
• Writings of General John Forbes relating to his service in North America. John Forbes. Arno Press 1938.
• An Historical Journal of the Campaigns in North America for the years 1757, 1758, 1759 & 1760. 3 Volumes. Captain J. Knox. 43rd Foot. Greenwood Press. 1968.
• An Accurate and Authentic Journal of the Siege of Quebec, 1759. By a Gentleman in an eminent Station on the Spot. London: J. Robinson, 1759.
• An Authentic Account of the Reduction of Louisbourg, in June and July 1758. By a Spectator. London: W. Owen, 1758
• A History of the 15th (East Yorkshire) Regiment. Robert J. Jones. Unpublished, by kind permission of the Regiment.
• Ever Glorious. The story of the 22nd Cheshire Regiment. Bernard Rigby. Unpublished. By kind permission of the Regiment.
• Ill Starred General. Braddock of the Coldstream Guards. Lee mcCardell. University of Pittsburgh Press. 1958.
• The Bloodybacks. The British serviceman in North America. Reginald Hargreaves. Rupert Davis 1968.
• Wolfe at Quebec. Christopher Hibbert. Longmans Green 1959.
• Lord Loudoun in North America. Stanley Pargellis. Archon Books 1968.
• Britains Sea Soldiers. A History of the Royal marines. Col. Cyril Field. R.M.L.I. Lyceum Press 1924.
• Braddock’s Defeat: The Journals of Captain Robert Chomley’s Batman; The Journal of a British Officer; Halkett’s Orderly Book. Charles Hamilton. ed. Norman, Oklahoma, 1959.
• Records of the Royal Scots. Leask & McCance 1915.
• History of the Royal Corps of Engineers. Vol 1. Whitworth Porter. Reprint 1951. Published by Institution of Royal engineers.
• The History of the Northamptonshire Regiment 1724-1934. Lt. Col. Russell Gurney. Gale and Polden Ltd. 1935.
• The Journal of Jeffery Amherst. J.C. Webster. Ed. Toronto. Ryerson Press 1931.
• History of the Royal Regiment of Artillery. 2 volumes. Major Francis Duncan. London Murray 1874.
• An Historical account of the expedition against the Ohio Indians in the year 1764. William Smith. London T. Jeffries 1766.
• The History of an Expedition against Fort Duquesne in 1755 under Major – General Edward Braddock Winthrop Sargent, ed. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1855.
• King George’s Army. Vols. 1, 2 & 3. Stuart Reid and Paul Chappell. Osprey 1995 & 1996.
• British redcoat. Stuart Reid and Richard Hook. Osprey 1996.
• Redcoats along the Hudson. Noel St. John Williams. Biddles Ltd. 1997.
• A History of the uniforms of the British Army. Vols. II, III & IV. Cecil C. P. Lawson. Kaye & Ward. London. 1966.
• An historical memoir of the 35th Regiment. Richard Trimen 1873.
• History of the 12th Regiment. E.A.H. Webb. 1914.
• The Royal North Lancashire Regiment. H.C. Wyley. 1933.
• Records of the 40th Regiment. R.H.R. Smythies 1894.
• The Story of the Oxfordshire and Buckinghamshire Light Infantry. Sir Henry Newbolt. 1915.
• A History of the Royal Sussex Regiment. G. D. Martineau. 1955.
• Historical Records of the 43rd Regiment. R.G.A. Levinge. 1868.
• Historical records of the 28th Regiment. F. Brodigan 1884.
• Cap of Honour. Story of the Gloucestershire Regiment. D.S. Daniel 1951.
• The Kings Royal Rifle Corps.
• The Battle of Restigouche. Ed. Commodore C. H. Little. Halifax. 1962.
• Tried and Valiant, the 55th Regiment.
• Mad is he? The character and achievements of James Wolfe. Duncan Grinnel-Milne. Bodley Head Ltd. 1963.
• James Wolfe, man and soldier. W.T. Waugh. Louis Carrier & Co. 1928.
• A Journal of the Expedition up the River St. Lawrence; Containing A True and Particular Account of the Transactions of the Fleet and Army, From the Time of Their Embarkation at Louisbourg ‘Til After
• the Surrender of Quebec. By a Sergeant-Major of Gen. Hopson’s Grenadiers. Boston November 1759.
• Fit for Service: the Training of the British Army, 1715-1795. J. A. Houlding, Oxford University Press, Oxford, UK 1981
• British Light Infantry in the Eighteenth Century. J. F. C. Fuller, Hutchinson & Co., London, UK 1925
• The British Army of the Eighteenth Century. H. C. B. Rogers, Allen and Unwin, London, UK 1977
• Redcoats in the Wilderness: British Officers and Irregular Warfare in Europe and America, 1740-1760. Peter E. Russell, William and Mary Quarterly, 3rd Series, 35, 4, 1978.
• Factors Behind the Raising of the 80th Foot in America. John R. Cuneo, Military Collector and Historian, 11, Winter 1959.
• The Adaptation of the British Army to Wilderness Warfare, 1755-1763. Daniel J. Beattie in Adapting to Conditions: War and Society in the Eighteenth Century. Maarten Ultee, University of Alabama Press, University, AL 1986

British Highland forces, histories and perspectives

• The Black Watch. Eric & Andro Linklater. Barrie & Jenkins. London 1977.
• Sketches of the Highlanders of Scotland. Col. David Stewart of Garth. Reprint of 1822 edition. 2 vols. John Donald, Edinburgh 1977.
• Officers of the Black Watch. 1729 – 1986. Ed. J.L.R. Samson. Samson books 1989.
• Broadswords and Bayonets. Ed. Robert G. Carroon. Society of Colonial Wars in the state of Illinois. 1984.
• The Fraser Highlanders. J.R. Harper. Historical Publications, the society of the Montreal Military and Maritime Museum.
• 18th Century Highlanders. Stuart Reid and Mike Chappell. Osprey 1993.
• The Black Watch at Ticonderoga and Major Duncan Campbell of Inverawe. Frederick B. Richards. New York Historical assoc.
• Regimental Routine and army administration in North America in 1759. Extracts from company order books of the 42nd Royal Highland Regiment. Ed. Col. R.F.H. Wallace. Army Historical research. 1994.
• Sketches of the Character, Manners and Present State of the Highlanders of Scotland; with details of The Military Service of The Highland Regiments. Major-General David Stewart, Vol I & II, (1825), Edinburgh.
• Historical Record of the Forty-Second, or, The Royal Highland Regiment of foot: Containing an account of the formation of six companies of Highlanders in 1729, which were termed "The Black Watch", and were regimented in 1739; and of the subsequent services of the Regiment to 1844. Richard Cannon, Adjutant General’s Office (London, 1845)
• An historical account of the settlements of Scotch Highlanders in America prior to the peace of 1783; together with notices of Highland regiments and biographical sketches. John Patterson MacLean. (Cleveland, 1900)
• The New Highland Military Discipline. George Grant. (London: 1757) reprint (1967)
• The Official Records of the Mutiny in the Black Watch, 1743. (London: 1910)

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02.07.08

Panzer Commander Memoirs

Posted in Uncategorized at 2:35 pm

In time, we got to know the names of the commanders of the two British reconnaissance battalions. I, too, was often addressed by prisoners. "You are Major von Luck. We’d have been glad to catch you."

While the Africa Army was putting every effort into fighting an orderly withdrawal action on the coast and then straight across Cyrenaica, we, with our four battalions, were able to operate freely for three weeks unmolested by tank and air attacks.

We quickly developed a certain routine. Toward five o’clock in the afternoon the reconnaissance patrols broke off their operations in order to reach base in good time; in the treeless desert with no landmarks it was impossible to find one’s way back to base in the dark. To avoid betraying our position, light signals were used only in an emergency. The two British battalions carried on in the same way, so that from 1700 hours, all reconnaissance and combat activity was suspended, to be resumed again the following morning as soon as it was light.

"We could really agree to a cease-fire with the British from 1700 hours until the next morning," I said, more as a joke, to those around me.

"Why not?" I was supported by Lieutenant Wenzel Luedecke, the reserve officer who had worked at the UFA film studios as an assistant director. "After all," he went on, "the British have a sense of humor. We ought to suggest it to them."

Chance came to our aid. One evening, when all our patrols were back, I received a visit from my intelligence officer.

"The Royal Dragoons are on the radio," he said, "and they would like to speak to you."
"Hallo, Royal Dragoons here. I know it’s unusual to make radio contact with you, but Lieutenant Smith and his scouting party have been missing since this evening. Is he with you, and if so how are things with him and his men?"

One of our patrols had indeed managed to take some prisoners. It turned out that they were Lieutenant Smith and his party.

"Yes, he is with us. All of them are unhurt and send greetings to their family and friends." Then came the brainstorm. "Can we call you, too, or the 1 1 th Hussars, if we have anyone missing?"

"Sure, your calls are always welcome."

It was only a matter of days before we had arrived at a "gentlemen’s agreement":

• At 1700 hours, precisely, all hostilities would be suspended. We called it "tea time."
• At 1705 hours, we would make open contact with the British, to exchange "news" about prisoners, etc.

In fact, from a distance of about 15 kilometers, we could often see the British get out their Primus stoves and make their tea. The agreement was kept by both sides, until we were forced by events to give up the connection in Tunisia. The prisoners we took often had to stay with us for several days, until the next supply convoy arrived and was able to take them away with it. We gave them whatever we could spare from our rations.

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02.06.08

Little Miss Nobody

Posted in Uncategorized at 4:24 pm

What I am thinking of doing for her is running a contest to select a name for her. Names suggested will be put into a poll and voted to the top few and then selected with another poll from that winnowing. Names can be either historical or fictional, humorous or serious. You can leave the suggested name here as a comment or drop me a line via the Old School Wargaming list on Yahoo

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01.21.08

Point Motivator

Posted in Uncategorized at 9:53 pm

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