Very patriotic. But the main figure is not wearing his proper headgear, and he appears to have altered his cuffs - the facing is way over regulation size... ...
A fascinating article by Professor Jasanoff. My grandfather used to recount how the family had farmed 300 acres near Fort Edward, New York (received as a...
Greetings to all! As I understand there are a variety of "lists" floating around which list who has or who has not registered for the upcoming Grand Tactical...
Although covering principally the years 1760 to 1796 there are images and information on British Detroit and Amherstburg Ont which this group may find of...
Oh dear, oh dear, Well, I think you can list this as a "tell them anything, some Rube will buy it." Just because someone has stamped a Broad Arrow on the ...
Well.... In response....without the melodrama. As Len points out, leather water buckets were firefighting equipment. According to a book I have on firefighting...
... firefighting ... They are indeed. The Provincial Marine purchased two of these buckets from the leather shop at Black Creek Pioneer Village last year at a ...
So go wood/ tin or go home wet. M ... firefighting ... They are indeed. The Provincial Marine purchased two of these buckets from the leather shop at Black...
I seem to recall this subject having come up once before sometime in the past... Did we not conclude at an earlier date that tin buckets are not, in fact,...
Absolutely not! I have seen archeological photos of digs from Brit/US camps from the American Revolution that have tin buckets and are identified as such. It...
Hmmm... I don't doubt your source, Mark. I am probably confusing myself by getting a couple of different conversations mixed up, or else someone else gave me...
List: Interest thread about buckets. Another question related to tin stuff. Do we have documentary evidence that the British Forces during the War of 1812 used...
Ray et al, Apparently, there are fragments of these tins that were found at Fort Malden in the water just off shore. The question here is whether they were...
Hello All, Craig, what dahdahdahdah, melodrama? I was just trying to point out that the item mentioned (which was also queried on the RevList) is another on a...
No problem. But I am not sure that I have your email address. Mine is mdickerson1(at)cogeco.ca Mark ... From: Len Heidebrecht To: WarOf1812@yahoogroups.com ...
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Jul 10, 2007 4:35 pm
In a message dated 10/07/2007 07:50:38 Central Standard Time, ray.hobbs@... writes: Do we have documentary evidence that the British Forces during...
Thanks Tim: But I thought they had already been in North America during the Rev War. Maybe I am mistaken. Ray ... [Non-text portions of this message have been...
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In a message dated 10/07/2007 12:20:25 Central Standard Time, ray.hobbs@... writes: Thanks Tim: But I thought they had already been in North America...
Ray, Rob Henderson does have a related article on the 1812 magazine site that mentions the troops were required to provide their own tin plates and cutlery as...
Greetings List, An interesting topic for sure. I found the included link of interest as I work in the Tinsmith shop at Black Creek Pioneer Village in Toronto, ...
Paella cookers, Tim?!?!? I don't think we are still talking about the D-shaped tins are we? Some of the larger "camp kettles" I have seen in images by...
Numerous copies of Hart's Army List are now available from Google Books online. While they are from a few decades after the War of 1812, they do contain a lot...
Seems to have been quite a guy. Wonder what might have happened if there had been a few dozen more officers like him? Canada's southern border today might be...
I was watching the History Channel yesterday afternoon, and saw an episode of a documentary series called "Great Canadian Lakes". The episode discussed some of...
Thank you Jim for that posting, At L2s encouragement I'm trying very hard to begin to understand quite how your War ever happened, I'm reading Pierre Berton's...
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Well Doug, Mark Dennis pointed out the connection to me some time ago and my notes on it are tucked away but basically the Spanish things are small individual...
