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Fitzhugh Williams
Mohicanland Statesman
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 Posted - February 22 2007 : 12:58:30 PM
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| My good Wilderness Wench, er..., Woman, of course there is no prejudice between us! All I try to do is to show you the error of your ways. And I still hold out hope that one day you will come to your senses (and to the French side as well). And by the way, what is this 21st century you were talking about? |
"Les deux pieds contre la muraille et la tete sous le robinet" |
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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood
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Posted - February 22 2007 : 3:55:06 PM
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Wench? Wench??? How dare you, Sir, call me that! Do not place me into the same category as the "loose" women you associate with in your bawdy French taverns. I keep my stays quite tightly laced, thank you very much, like the proper lady I am.
And, I might add, the only "error of my ways" that needs correcting is this silly thought I keep having that perhaps... just perhaps... you are not like the usual Fran-say. Obviously, you are.
And it's the same 21st century in which you are fast-forwarding your LOTM tape. |
"It is more deeply stirring to my blood than any imaginings could possibly have been." |
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Monadnock Guide
Council of Elders
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Posted - February 22 2007 : 5:04:32 PM
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| You two sure your not married? |
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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood
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Posted - February 22 2007 : 8:22:57 PM
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Positive.
Me? Marry a Frenchman?  Never.  |
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Light of the Moon
Mohicanland Statesman
USA
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Posted - February 22 2007 : 9:36:43 PM
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Originally posted by Wilderness Woman
Ummmmm... I'm not really sure of what you are referring to here, so please pardon me if I am misunderstanding. But, if you are referring to us, you do realize that Fitz and I are just kidding around, don't you? Fitz is a long-time re-enactor, whom I respect a great deal (just don't tell him that !) and I am a newbie re-enactor who still has much to learn. There is no prejudice between us, at least within the 21st century! 
Right, Fitzie?? You respect me,too, don't you?? There's no prejudice on your part... is there? We are... just joking..... aren't we???? Fitz...????
Does that "Clear it up any?" 
 I love it! The "Clear it up any?" remark. That was funny.
And yes you did understand my post quite well and I apologize for the misunderstanding. Who da' thunk of the unspoken pun, now that just makes it all quite funny!
Thanks for cluing me in! |
I live in my own little world - but that's okay, they know me here! |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - February 23 2007 : 12:30:05 AM
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You two sure your not married?
Of course not. We are much to civil to each other. Can't you tell?
Marry a British woman? It think not!!! My wife is French!!! And actually, not that it matters to anyone, her middle name comes down through her family from an ancestor named for LaFayette. |
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Monadnock Guide
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Posted - February 23 2007 : 07:42:14 AM
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| On second thought, - good point Fritz. |
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RedFraggle
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Posted - March 19 2007 : 07:29:34 AM
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Dare I open this can of worms again?
I'm wondering if anyone can tell me when (approx.) troops would go into and leave winter quarters in 18th c. America. Just another one of those random thoughts I had while doing some readings! |
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Seamus
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Posted - March 19 2007 : 09:26:59 AM
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| When the weather gets too crappy to campaign, and when it clears up again. |
Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
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Monadnock Guide
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Posted - March 19 2007 : 10:24:33 AM
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| We're they really that scientific Seamus? ;) |
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Seamus
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Posted - March 19 2007 : 11:13:40 AM
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Life's journey is not to
arrive at the grave safely
in a well preserved body,
but rather to skid in sideways,
totally worn out, shouting
'...holy sh*t ...what a ride!'
~~Mavis Leyrer, Seattle
Seamus
~~Aim small, hit the b*****d right between the eyes!~~ |
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Wilderness Woman
Watcher of the Wood
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Posted - March 19 2007 : 10:43:31 PM
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If I may add something to what Seamus has said...
I think that it sometimes depended partly on what the opposing army was doing. It if was going into winter quarters, then it was reasonably safe to do so, as well. But if it was on the move, it may have been necessary to keep moving to gain an advantageous position, as well.
Or in the case of Washington's brash move to attack Trenton, New Jersey early on Christmas Day (after crossing the Delaware during the night), sometimes going into winter quarters was delayed in order to gain the advantage and catch the enemy unaware. |
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RedFraggle
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Posted - June 05 2007 : 11:43:52 PM
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Me again. Time for another silly question.
Can anyone tell me the difference between a French musket and a British musket in the period of the F&I War? I read somehwere (can't remember where!) that French muskets were longer and lighter than British ones. I think the figure given was 6-8 pounds vs. 10 pounds for the British musket (?).
True? Not true? In any case, could one tell a French musket from a British one just by looking at it? |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - June 06 2007 : 12:07:12 AM
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There were a lot of different guns in use, but if you stay strictly with the 1746 French fusil and the Long Land Pattern Bess, there is not really that much difference is size, weight, and barrel length. The French gun is of slightly less caliber, .69-.72 or so compared to .75-.77 for the British. Both are heavier built than a civilian gun so they can be used as a weapon other than when fired, that is as a mount for a bayonet. The barrel of the French gun is retained by metal bands, the British gun with pins, so it is easy to see the difference. Now there were a lot of different French guns in use other than the 1728-1746 model, and many of these were lighter weight hunting guns. Wolfe armed his officers with captured French guns because there were lighter than the ones they were carrying, which was the standard infantry model. These would have been the lighter hunting guns which would not have been fitted for a bayonet, but officers had no need of a bayonet because they would not be standing in a line of battle.
You could write a book on the subject and many have. But to keep the question in its most simple form, the two armies were similarly armed. |
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Obediah
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 Posted - June 06 2007 : 10:57:24 AM
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| There's one thing that has been bothering me for a long, long time. Whoever heard of a Frenchman named Fitzhugh? |
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Fitzhugh Williams
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Posted - June 06 2007 : 12:18:20 PM
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Maybe from Normandy? Or Alsace-Lorraine?
What about one named "De Saxe"? Or "Johnstone"? Or "DeKalb"? |
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RedFraggle
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Posted - August 01 2007 : 8:06:59 PM
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Here we go again! I'm back with another question. This one has to do with fort life.
I know that the average enlisted man was quartered in a room in the barracks, sometimes with 10 or more other guys. And I know that there were separate officers' quarters and sometimes a separate house for the fort commander . . . but I'm assuming officers had to do a bit of sharing too (?). I looked at a few fort plans, and some of them show only four or five rooms marked "officers' quarters," which doesn't seem to be enough if every officer had his own room. All the pics of officers' quarters I can find online, however, invariably show a quaint little room with a fireplace, a desk, and single four-poster bed with poofy curtains. (I'm guessing that's for the show-and-tell purposes of tourism!)
So my question is: How were officers really lodged at frontier forts, especially those who had wives or children with them? Would multiple officers have stayed in one room, together with wives/kids?  |
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Steve S
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Posted - August 02 2007 : 02:11:44 AM
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If it's anything like a bit later....remember Officer's needed the CO's permission to marry....which would rarely be granted to anyone under Captain....imagine the young subaltern's in an 18thcent Bachelor Officer's quarters & you get the idea....Also,as in the Revwar,I can see senior officer's families being left in the cities/towns when the regiment went on campaign...Lots of Garrisons were manned by Provincial units who served for one campaign,leaving the regulars for the field army....they didn't do long-term garrison duty until post-1763 & a unit would normally be split up between several locations.
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