And that my friends is why the Scots are so well educated. "Drums"...
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Wayne Thurston
wthurston60
Feb 3, 2010 12:27 am
Esteemed list We are getting together a militia kit and are finding differing opinions about the style of hat worn by The NewYork militia. We realize...
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Ray Hobbs
dismas_3
Feb 3, 2010 1:38 am
Read Arthur Herman's book "The Scottish Enlightenment" How the Scots Invented the Modern World" - a very well-written and well-documented study of late 18th...
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ronpontiac
Feb 3, 2010 1:59 am
... "We are getting together a militia kit and are finding differing opinions about the style of hat worn by The NewYork militia." I think that if you are...
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BritcomHMP@...
timothy.pickles
Feb 3, 2010 2:04 am
Think of it - the greatest philosopher in Europe at the time was a Scot - David Hume; David Hume could out consume Schopenhauer and Hegel And Wittgenstein was...
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John Ogden
johnogden2001
Feb 3, 2010 4:22 am
I think you meant "Nietzsche" here... ... -- John J. Ogden [Non-text portions of this message have been removed]...
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Kevin Windsor
kevinwindsorca
Feb 3, 2010 12:25 pm
The NYS militia was a uniformed militia. They wore blue coats with red facings and white tape (solver for officers). Distinctive State buttons, and felt...
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Kevin Windsor
kevinwindsorca
Feb 3, 2010 12:31 pm
Ummmm..silver is what I meant to say! (it's been a loooong week folks!) KW _____ From: WarOf1812@yahoogroups.com [mailto:WarOf1812@yahoogroups.com] On Behalf ...
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Tom Hurlbut
lakesimcoesq...
Feb 3, 2010 1:39 pm
Hi Ron I couldn't agree more about the hunting shirt. There are a number of re-enactors from other time periods looking at joining in for the upcoming...
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biggest_plume
Feb 3, 2010 3:09 pm
Aye Lad! Real Enlightenment "Drums"...
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Mark Dickerson
mdickerson44...
Feb 3, 2010 3:10 pm
I believe that making a US uniform is much cheaper than most people think, and comparable to getting a hunting frock. Militia: Hunting frock $120 Top hat or...
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annbwass@...
annwass2000
Feb 3, 2010 3:16 pm
I agree that there are probably too many militia in hunting frocks, just as there are too many women citizens in short gowns. I imagine, though, that some of...
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Tom Hurlbut
lakesimcoesq...
Feb 3, 2010 4:28 pm
Dare I mention that the US rifle regiments are documented to have worn hunting frocks of a uniform cut and color? Or would that generate an unrealistic ratio...
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Paul Watson
doc41st
Feb 3, 2010 6:21 pm
Hi All, US Militia units were issued Regimentals, that were not just hunting frocks, they were quite often the 1810 issue. This is evidenced, for example, ...
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larrylozon
Feb 3, 2010 7:42 pm
"Major" Tom Were there any Rifle Regiments from New York State? (original question: "We are getting together a militia kit and are finding differing opinions...
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Soo
saultcitysoo
Feb 3, 2010 9:53 pm
Victory firing a rolling broadside. Guess they couldn't find enough trained gun crews. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2WdU3Zkeig...
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Tom Hurlbut
lakesimcoesq...
Feb 3, 2010 10:03 pm
Thanks for cutting to the chase, Larry ;-) My (thinly veiled) purpose in my response was to promote a discussion on proper militia wear for 1812 as I know many...
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Tom Hurlbut
lakesimcoesq...
Feb 3, 2010 10:06 pm
In watching this, I'm not sure any of the guns were actually loaded and fired as we would do, but that they seem to have charges around/in the muzzles...
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Victor Suthren
suthrenvictor
Feb 3, 2010 10:43 pm
The amount of powder used was much less than the actual charges of the period, as I'm sure everyone on this list knows. Even given the poorer quality of powder...
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jgreath511@...
fayetteville...
Feb 3, 2010 10:56 pm
Way down here in Fayetteville, North Carolina a local volunteer militia company issued the following uniform orders. "Blue homespun coat, turned up and faced...
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Craig Williams
sgtwarnersco
Feb 3, 2010 11:07 pm
I concur with both Tom and Ron In the past I have encountered folks wearing the same "hunting shirt" that they wear for several other periods at an 1812 event...
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Soo
saultcitysoo
Feb 3, 2010 11:17 pm
Oops! That should have been _HMS_ Victory. Sue Too...
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Ed Seufert
easeufe
Feb 4, 2010 2:17 am
Esteemed List, May I offer an observation from "Subaltern in America": "The corps which occupied the heights above Bladensburg, was composed chiefly of...
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ronpontiac
Feb 4, 2010 2:47 am
... "...others in ordinary shooting-jackets, and some in round frocks...." I wonder what constituted a shooting jacket or round frock in the 1830's when this...
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Ed Seufert
easeufe
Feb 4, 2010 3:38 am
Ron, "Subaltern in America" was originally a series written for Blackwoods Edinburgh Magazine which appeared in 1827 and was later distributed in book form in...
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talleman1
Feb 4, 2010 3:43 am
My Unit www.Firstregiment.com is doing uniformed militia and we have used sources from many states that issued uniforms for the men. Also round jackets are a...
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arkaologist
Feb 4, 2010 12:25 pm
... In the 1810 Militia Law for NYS, each State Regiment was ordered to raise one attached company of riflemen. I have sources, though buried in my office at...
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Martin Hickey
queenannsrev...
Feb 4, 2010 12:59 pm
Thoughts or references for militia units from TN & KY to include participation in the Creek Indian Wars? Martin [Non-text portions of this message have...
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K.J.L
union47th
Feb 4, 2010 2:07 pm
Hello all, Our unit, the 2nd Michigan (Lacroix's Company) are fortunate in that Governor (later General) Hull issued specific orders for the uniforms. Here is...
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irv409@...
fmg1812
Feb 4, 2010 2:12 pm
What about Benjamen Foresythe's group from upstate New York that fought all along the St. Lawrence Frontier--the Foresythe Rifles. They wear grean coats...
