" Something I have often wondered about is, what are the modern British Army marching cadences?" "Quick March"......... Interestingly enough, it's a 30 inch...
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davidmckissack
Mar 3, 2008 10:46 am
It's a shame when someone on dial-up has to step in and keep two veterans from talking past each other, but someone has to do it. You're both right. Mike is...
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Patrick O'Kelley
rgrokelley
Mar 3, 2008 11:07 am
Howdy, ... Actually I was talking about the march outside of battle also. When Kirkwood logged his many, many miles marching through the Carolinas, they did...
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Mike Eckhart
mikee0137
Mar 3, 2008 11:49 am
... militia/riflemen as the two farbiest elements of any reenactment. ... Pat, would you please explain this statement? As a member of a militia unit, I...
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davidmckissack
Mar 3, 2008 12:47 pm
Pat and Liste: I don't have time or resources to post lots of documentation right now, but one of the most memorable instances of music being played on the...
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Thomas Pray
ranger582001
Mar 3, 2008 1:07 pm
Sir, Isn't that what they're trying to do at reenactments. In your own words: " trying to impress the locals, or drum up interests " I don't like all the...
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Dave White
davewhiteus
Mar 3, 2008 3:10 pm
Merchants and the Military in Eighteenth-Century Britain: British Army Contracts and Domestic Supply, 1739-1763, by Gordon E. Bannerman. Pickering & Chatto:...
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Patrick O'Kelley
rgrokelley
Mar 3, 2008 3:12 pm
Howdy, ... Not much to explain. The use of militia/riflemen (and music) are two of the farbiest elements of reenacting. You may be the best and most authentic...
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Patrick O'Kelley
rgrokelley
Mar 3, 2008 3:15 pm
Howdy, ... I remember that as one of the few instances, however look at the time and circumstances. It was literally a party atmosphere. Cornwallis had...
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Patrick O'Kelley
rgrokelley
Mar 3, 2008 3:37 pm
Howdy, ... Heck no! At any event where I have written the scenario, it is done as close to the original as possible. The only constraints are numbers,...
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adjutant24thcmr
Mar 3, 2008 4:09 pm
Members, I agree with Patrick about the use of music and marching on the battlefield. Battlefields are to be confusing enough with trying to stay in step with...
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carlgnam1va
Mar 3, 2008 4:20 pm
The Battle of the Hook website has been updated with Charter Bus information. We will be posting information for reenactors about charter bus travel to the...
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Alexander McCracken G...
clan_mccracken
Mar 3, 2008 4:41 pm
Okay Patrick and Liste. How about a list of drum/fife/bagpipe use in theatre but not in battle? Alex, 76th Foot...
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Patrick O'Kelley
rgrokelley
Mar 3, 2008 5:18 pm
Howdy, ... Some of this is in the Rev List files. There are two files on music, and there is one file dedicated to bagpipers alone. The use of drums, etc, in...
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todanieloconnell@...
britbrig8th
Mar 3, 2008 6:38 pm
I've come across a Japanese Bess for sale. They are asking $500 for it. It was make from a kit, sling loops need to be drilled. The metal and wood will clean...
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Malcolm Angus MacWill...
sjtmmacwm
Mar 3, 2008 6:49 pm
Daniel....I cannot bring up Dave Leonard's email, cause I'm at my school and filters, etc., etc.!!! However, want to get my dibs in first for this weapon as...
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Glenn Williams
gfwilliams607
Mar 3, 2008 7:11 pm
Dear Friends and Fellow Historians, The American Revolution Round Table of the District of Columbia will hold its next meeting on Wednesday, 5 March 2008, at...
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robertaselig
Mar 3, 2008 7:49 pm
Salut -- "The drums are now beginning to beet (sic) for parade. I must now break off and hast to receive, a haughty cruel, unjust but now crest fallen foe."...
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robertaselig
Mar 3, 2008 8:57 pm
Salut -- I just received a photocopy of Ensign Dennis' "Orderly Book" for Cornwallis' Virginia Campaign for the months of August through 22 October 1781. In it...
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John Gardner
jwgneg
Mar 3, 2008 9:09 pm
"Tune all your voices, and instruments play!" (Henry Purcell, lyrics to a Birthday Ode for Queen Mary"): I loved Bob Selig's quote and have included it, with...
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Todd Post
secondvaregt
Mar 3, 2008 9:11 pm
... http://www.revwar75.com/library/rees/shelter4.htm "We are now ... properly ... enwigwamed." British Soldiers and Brush Huts, 1776-1781 by John U. Rees ...
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raynersteve
Mar 3, 2008 9:19 pm
Hi Patrick & All; I agree with what you are saying. It's all about the context of the reference. Pop history muddles it all together, making rare occasions ...
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Tony Roux
sharkbait40
Mar 3, 2008 9:47 pm
Patrick Are you saying that you want NO music at a re-enactment? Music has a role in camp playing tunes to command the soldiers to do certain functions such as...
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raynersteve
Mar 3, 2008 10:39 pm
Hi Tony; Thanks for your post. Not to try to speak for Patrick, or get in between a couple of Carolina boys or anything... but both of you seem to describe the...
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Patrick O'Kelley
rgrokelley
Mar 3, 2008 11:07 pm
Howdy, ... Folks, quit adding to my words. It ain't rocket science. I've pretty much wrote out exactly what I mean. I'm not one to meander around double...
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Joe Hinson
joe_max_hinson
Mar 4, 2008 12:07 am
This was posted on a forum I frequent and I was wondering how many of these issues members of this list have run into in their travels, which are far more than...
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Patrick O'Kelley
rgrokelley
Mar 4, 2008 12:33 am
Howdy, ... of ... This whole list of dramatic situations is a nice bit of fantasy. Whoever wrote it was definately going for the worst case extreme ... the ......
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relyeadon
Mar 4, 2008 12:56 am
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HAWKEYE !
joe_max_hinson
Mar 4, 2008 1:00 am
Thank you Pat, I answered in basically the same way..here was his response. I will post responses of others on the forum as well if people want to see them...
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Joseph Malit
reichsritter
Mar 4, 2008 2:07 am
... Every Hessian regiment had a small band of six or eight "oboists" separate from the fifers and drummers, as part of the colonel's company (Leib-Compagnie)....
