American warfare 1690-1835 in popular culture, art, in miniature and in wargames, through Living History and in movies.
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This is the first stage of an excellent project. This is the corner tower of a recreation of the fort in the movie Drums Along the Mohawk... -
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This came out in 1984. Was an excellent addition to a small set of books. -
This maker of figures is working on miniatures based around the theme Braddock's disaster. First up Natives and Canadians followed by B...
Very interesting! Thanks. One of the clichés associated with the more famous West painting of the death of Wolfe was that West was revolutionary in his depiction of his heroic subject in modern clothing, rather than the toga of the Classical period.
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Penny's painting, a decade earlier, demonstrates that West's work was not quite so revolutionary as commonly claimed.