Background Official Despatch of Brig-Gen. H. Havelock C.B., to the Deputy-Adjutant-General of the Army, Calcutta, dated Bivouac, Bithoor, 17 Aug 1857. Sir, I have to request the favour of your informing the…
Month: October 2025
Fort William Henry – Lake George, New York.
Well, we arrived on the east side of the state, in the heart of the Hudson River valley, in Lake George. Fort William Henry is right in the middle of the town…
Everyone needs a Chicken Coop.
I was on Ebay looking for a couple of sprues of 10mm Japanese and found a seller that had them. When I find a store on Ebay, I often check out their…
Fort Plain – Fort Plain, New York.
We continued on our eastward trek across the state and stopped off in Fort Plain. This was not on our original bingo card, but it came up in my on the road…
R&P – Clash of the Cabbages.
Due to some personal obligations, I have been slacking in my game running activities. I am also getting ready to go on a road trip and would be away from the gaming…
FOW – The Pacific, Beach Landing Pack.
I swung by one of my FLGS to pick up the new Pacific army books that had just came out. They also had a few sets of the Beach Landing Pack. I…
Fort Stanwix – Rome, New York and Oriskany Battlefield.
We finished up our tours of sites around the greater Buffalo area and started to work our way across the state. We hit a few historical homes in Rochester for a day…
Buffalo Naval Museum Park – Buffalo, New York.
We started the day by swinging by the museum at the house that Theodore Roosevelt was sworn in as president, after the death of President McKinley. Next on our military list was…
Fort Niagara – Niagara, New York.
Well, TJ and I made it to Buffalo and had a nice dinner eating some celebrated wings. We spent the next day looking at Frank Loyd Wright houses in the area. Following…
V&F – Battle of Cawnpore, July 1867.
Background The siege of Cawnpore was a key episode in the Indian Rebellion of 1857. The besieged East India Company forces and civilians in Cawnpore (now Kanpur) were duped into a false assurance of a safe passage to Allahabad by…