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| 25 JAN 2007 at 9:31am |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
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Status : Online | Hey -- I just want to say thanks so much for posting the links to my website and my pics! I'm Chauncey. I found this forum because someone here visited my website via the link this post, and that someone lives in Denver. I'm originally from Denver so was interested in who that might be.
I'm also quite interested in seeing someone from Nottingham in the F&I War!
YH&OS,
Pvt. Chauncey
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| 25 JAN 2007 at 9:54am |
redcoat2Centurion
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Location: UK
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Hi Pvt. Chauncey,
Yup, I’m from England. I only recently discovered the FIW when I bought AGEOD’s Birth of America. I don’t think many people in the UK know much about the conflict - apart from military history buffs.
I should have posted a link to the index page of your excellent site ([link=http://reenacting.net/sfmlh.html][color=#0000FF]here[/color][/link]). Sorry.
P.S. The links from your website are good too.
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| 26 JAN 2007 at 10:51am |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
Posts : 9
Joined: 25 JAN 2007
Status : Online | Hey - I recently got contacted by someone in the UK who wants to join a Rogers Rangers unit, but to my knowledge there isn't one, and I suggested he start one himself (I'ld be willing to offer my unit's help). I wonder if there are more of you who might be interested in joining him...???
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| 26 JAN 2007 at 5:11pm |
redcoat2Centurion
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Location: UK
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Hi Pvt. Chauncey,
I don’t think that there are any Rangers re-enactors in the UK. However, I know someone who is an expert on re-enacting in this country – who also has a special interest in 18th Century re-enacting. He may be able to help the Brit who has contacted you regarding re-enactment. I’m pretty sure that he’d like to make your acquaintance as well. I’ll find his contact details and e-mail them to you.
BTW, this forum is an international forum. It is used by ‘wargamers’ all over the world - and not just by us Brits.
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| 26 JAN 2007 at 6:35pm |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
Posts : 9
Joined: 25 JAN 2007
Status : Online | Hi again,
I would be very interested in, er, "meeting" your contact. I've had more than one person from the UK contact me for assistance. I'm also the point of contact for my unit's website (http://rogersrangers.org).
I'm seeing just how international this site is. Someone from Down Under pinged my site today from your posts!! It's not like Big Brother -- I don't know "who" is visiting my site, only where they reside, where they linked from, and where they link out.
Not long ago, I had an email from a Ranger reenacting unit in the Czech Republic, my response was posted on their chat board, someone translated it into Czech, someone posted a question which I got emailed, my response went onto their board... It's really wonderful to see!!! They had a picture of themselves and they looked good. It turns out, Tim Todish was advising them.[]
By the way, I'm always VERY open to input from anyone who visits my site for comments on what they might want to see. I get bored with it and could use some inspiration on what to add. That said, I'm working on the Lake George Tactical report this Friday evening...
YH&OS,
Chauncey
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| 26 JAN 2007 at 6:39pm |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
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Joined: 25 JAN 2007
Status : Online | I forgot to ask -- what's your "Redcoat" monicker about and/or your F&I affiliation??
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| 27 JAN 2007 at 2:39am |
FallschirmjägerCommander
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Joined: 31 JUL 2005
Location: NZ
Status : Offline | Are ther any native americans like the mohawks etc... who do any of this re-enacting at all,i always liked them the most of the six nations tribes and the german mercenaries like the hessians and the british the most,i think movies like the last of the mohicans and older ones on those times have interested me at times.[]
Fallschirmjäger
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| 27 JAN 2007 at 7:48am |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
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Joined: 25 JAN 2007
Status : Online | Oh yeah, there are a lot of real Native Americans reenacting Native Americas -- mostly they are on the French side but I know one who reenacts Cheeksaunkun on the Mohican side for the Brits. Quite a number of "white" people reenact the Natives and thankfully, they usually do really good research. (250 years ago, the Native population had a LOT of white people in their tribes. They captured whites as a way to replace their dead, and interestingly as the more whites they captured, the less susceptible they became to white diseases like small pox.) Anyway, we couldn't do this hobby without the Natives!!!
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| 27 JAN 2007 at 11:02am |
BoggitColonel
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Joined: 18 JUL 2003
Status : Offline | Some really good photos here. I hope everyone had a good time. A friend of mine does re-enact as a Confederate soldier in a South Carolina Regiment. They do re-enact all over the UK and in the US too.
A few years ago we saw Legio II Augusta at an old Villa site near Salisbury - they were really good and very interesting. I plan to take the kids to some re-enactments when they are older - probably Sealed Knot or the ECW Society as they are quite active in the South of England.[]
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| 28 JAN 2007 at 9:47am |
redcoat2Centurion
Posts : 380
Joined: 2 AUG 2006
Location: UK
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Chauncey.
As you have probably guessed my ‘moniker’ comes from my re-enacting days. I used to be a pikeman in an English Civil War re-enactment group. The distinctive feature of my uniform was a sturdy red jacket.
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| 28 JAN 2007 at 9:48am |
redcoat2Centurion
Posts : 380
Joined: 2 AUG 2006
Location: UK
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Fallschirmjäger,
Here are some pics for you.
First some FIW Indian warrior re-enactors in the UK:
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/683/1430/1600/indkir.jpg[/image]
[image]http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/683/1430/1600/germa.jpg[/image]
[b]And now some Hessians:[/b]
Hessians at Trenton
[image]http://www.vondonop.org/images/charge%20at%20Trenton.jpg[/image]
Hessians at the Brandywine
[image]http://www.geocities.com/regimentvonknyphausen/bwine04w.jpg[/image]
Hessians at White Plains … with British redcoats
[image]http://www.vondonop.org/images/wp2001d.jpg[/image]
[image]http://www.vondonop.org/images/wp2001b.jpg[/image]
[image]http://www.vondonop.org/images/wp2001a.jpg[/image]
[image]http://www.vondonop.org/images/wp2001c.jpg[/image]
Hessian Feldjäger
[image]http://www.hessen-militaer.de/mizi_englisch/images/jager.jpg[/image]
[image]http://www.geocities.com/Pentagon/Fort/2862/Jagers_Monmouth_headingout.jpg[/image]
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| 29 JAN 2007 at 9:53am |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
Posts : 9
Joined: 25 JAN 2007
Status : Online | I would love to see some a good Roman event in the UK somewhere. I don't think there is a single one in the US.
Reenactments are a great place to take kids. I've heard them described as "edutainment" and I think that's a good way to put it. For those of us who do it, it is "Living History" but for the public, we hope they learn something about the battles, the ways people live, etc.
The F&I is my favorite because it's so much more pivotal to US (and in some ways world) history than people realize! And of course we are doing the 250th of all the major battles these few years. This summer is the 250th of the seige at Fort William Henry of Last of the Mohicans fame!! Should be a doozy!!
Pvt. Chauncey
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| 29 JAN 2007 at 8:00pm |
FallschirmjägerCommander
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Joined: 31 JUL 2005
Location: NZ
Status : Offline | Thanks for all that info [link=http://www.wargamer.com/forums/showProfile.asp?memid=5674][b][color=#333333]pvtchauncey[/color][/b][/link],and [link=http://www.wargamer.com/forums/showProfile.asp?memid=5065][b][color=#333333]redcoat2[/color][/b][/link] for the pictures,i did not think there would be these guys in the u.k realy,or are they american ones?.Great hessians ones too,i know they where not the only german units in the americas then,but the largest i think right?.
And on these reenactment units int he u.s,where maybe they have the most?,it must be the civil war that has the most maybe you would think,then maybe WW2,and i wonder if any of the guys in the pictures where in movies or tv shows where these soldiers are used,like last of the mohicans etc..[]
Fallschirmjäger
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| 29 JAN 2007 at 8:05pm |
cambronneCenturion
Posts : 76
Joined: 10 NOV 2005
Status : Online |
ORIGINAL: pvtchauncey
I would love to see some a good Roman event in the UK somewhere. I don't think there is a single one in the US.
Reenactments are a great place to take kids. I've heard them described as "edutainment" and I think that's a good way to put it. For those of us who do it, it is "Living History" but for the public, we hope they learn something about the battles, the ways people live, etc.
The F&I is my favorite because it's so much more pivotal to US (and in some ways world) history than people realize! And of course we are doing the 250th of all the major battles these few years. This summer is the 250th of the seige at Fort William Henry of Last of the Mohicans fame!! Should be a doozy!!
Pvt. Chauncey
Will you be attending the Grand Encampment III this year?
I will be there with Brigade Levis. A US French unit.
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 1:45pm |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
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Joined: 25 JAN 2007
Status : Online | You mean the one at Crown Point? Nope - I don't go the THE Grand Encampments. Where are you guys based? Who is the head of the unit? I don't know that many French by units but I do hear some names now and again... :>
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| 30 JAN 2007 at 1:51pm |
cambronneCenturion
Posts : 76
Joined: 10 NOV 2005
Status : Online |
ORIGINAL: pvtchauncey
You mean the one at Crown Point? Nope - I don't go the THE Grand Encampments. Where are you guys based? Who is the head of the unit? I don't know that many French by units but I do hear some names now and again... :>
Yup, Crown point. I am part of Regiment de La Reine a French white coat/red cuffs unit. We are based in the midwest. Our leader's name is Protz.
Since we don't get out east all that much, (I'm in Chicago) we might not have crossed paths. I have been to Niagara a number of times for their annual event though. Niagara is generally great.
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| 5 FEB 2007 at 5:39pm |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
Posts : 9
Joined: 25 JAN 2007
Status : Online | Good day,
I lost the link to reply to you but a kind soul sent it to me. I know the name of Bill Protz. I'm on some of the distributions about this event. I know Mike Mileki backed out of being overall organizer for the French and I know there is no overall organizer from the British. In fact, there is no chat at all amongst the Brits. This event is going to have some very serious issues, not only with location but organization.
Oddly, I've never made it to Niagara! I've heard for so many years about how gorgeous the site is but the event always comes on the heals of Ticonderoga and right before something else, which makes the all-day-drives a problem. I am absolutely going to be there for the 250th though, along with all the other 250 events I can get my hands on. I'm webmaster for Quebec '09 and we are already on the planning for that, the Battle of the Plains of Abraham! It will be spectacular.
The 250th for Fort William Henry is looking really good -- busy, and NOISY with seige cannos going off all day and into the evening (with fireworks). They town is acquiring adjacent property that will allow us to dig real trenches for the French (that would be you!) so we can -- for the first time I've ever heard of -- have real "seige" tactical in terms of seige offense and defense. Plus Sunday will have the massacre. It really is all-hands-on-deck for the French for this one!! Hope you guys can make it!
YH&OS,
Pvt. Chauncey
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| 5 FEB 2007 at 9:21pm |
cambronneCenturion
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Status : Online | Ft William Henry sounds great. What weekend is that going to be?
I'm in Illinois so I have to pick and choose my NY state events.
Bill is our group's leader and I know Mike Milecki as well as I fall in with them every now and then.
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| 11 FEB 2007 at 6:07pm |
pvtchaunceyCenturion
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Status : Online | Fort William Henry's 250th will be September 14-16. Yup, they are planning events for that Friday. There will be an ongoing seige with trenches Friday and Saturday. Seige canons will be firing regularly including Saturday night with fireworks. The seige will also include demonstrations on offensive and defensive tactics. And there will be the battels as normal, parleys, and Sunday -- the massacre after Munro gives up the fort!! It should be a FANTASTIC weekend. I hope you guys can make it!!
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| 20 MAY 2007 at 8:13pm |
BeerCatCenturion
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Status : Online | Hope this thread is still active. I grew up around Ft.William Henry in Glens Falls N.Y. and have been to the fort and Lake George many times. It is great there in the fall. I live in Fl. now but may take vacation and go up.[ul]
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"If we're not willing to use it here against OUR FELLOW CITIZENS,then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation" Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne. ( testing non-lethal weapons such as high powered pulse weapons)
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| 30 JUN 2007 at 12:36pm |
BoggitColonel
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ORIGINAL: BeerCat
Hope this thread is still active. I grew up around Ft.William Henry in Glens Falls N.Y. and have been to the fort and Lake George many times. It is great there in the fall. I live in Fl. now but may take vacation and go up.[ul]
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Oh No! The Fort's been turned into a parking lot. Fenimore Cooper, Col. Munro and the Marquis de Montcalm must be turning in their graves!![][]
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| 30 JUN 2007 at 6:08pm |
BeerCatCenturion
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Status : Online | It was that way when I was a kid too. They used to have a pit with glass over it where they had skeletons from the battle. Fort Ticonderoga was still rural at that time though.
"If we're not willing to use it here against OUR FELLOW CITIZENS,then we should not be willing to use it in a wartime situation" Air Force Secretary Michael Wynne. ( testing non-lethal weapons such as high powered pulse weapons)
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| 1 JUL 2007 at 2:49pm |
BoggitColonel
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ORIGINAL: BeerCat
It was that way when I was a kid too. They used to have a pit with glass over it where they had skeletons from the battle. Fort Ticonderoga was still rural at that time though.
And it's called progress...[&
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