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Feb 17, 2021 9:12:41 GMT
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 17, 2021 9:12:41 GMT
Didn't Sharpe frag that Dutch fancy?
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Feb 17, 2021 16:02:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2021 16:02:59 GMT
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Feb 17, 2021 16:29:24 GMT
Post by quincannon on Feb 17, 2021 16:29:24 GMT
Well if you must, family web site notwithstanding. Lieutenant Colonel Richard Sharpe referred to William, Prince of Orange as a "silk stocking full of shit". Richard Sharpe was correct in all respects, and it's just too damned bad that Richard Sharpe was available ONLY in the pages of Cornwell's books.
Did not find the book Mike, but I did find a lovely purse that will go very well with my burgundy skirt.
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Feb 17, 2021 17:09:35 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 17, 2021 17:09:35 GMT
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Feb 17, 2021 20:07:22 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Feb 17, 2021 20:07:22 GMT
I say old chap, this is a bit strong link
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Feb 17, 2021 21:40:00 GMT
Post by Beth on Feb 17, 2021 21:40:00 GMT
Perhaps the number of units that ran had more to with a lack of training.
For many years I knew my (many greats) grandfather fought in the Napoleonic Wars. There are quotes contributed to him in the county history of him cursing Napoleon so I always though he fought against Napoleon. It wasn't until I started doing my family history I realized he was most likely a conscript in Napoleon's army.
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Feb 19, 2021 20:21:52 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Feb 19, 2021 20:21:52 GMT
That’s is great story Beth, you are very lucky to have had such a relative.
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Feb 19, 2021 20:31:17 GMT
Post by quincannon on Feb 19, 2021 20:31:17 GMT
Sort of like my father's aunt Lucy, whose life long dream to become a member of the DAR (Daughters of the American Revolution) came a cropper when she found out her Revolutionary War ancestor was a Hessian Mercenary deserter. Sometimes I guess it does not pay to look too hard into your past.
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Feb 19, 2021 20:34:02 GMT
Post by yanmacca on Feb 19, 2021 20:34:02 GMT
It is like the old saying, every family has its skeletons in the cupboard!
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Feb 19, 2021 21:12:32 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2021 21:12:32 GMT
More Map stuff. This is from the game "The Little Bighorn" each hex is 1/4 mile. I think it is a good portrayal of the ground and an enjoyable game. First up is the overview. This is just one of the maps. The other one extends the map to allow Gibbon/Terry to come up and play. There are alternate scenarios with keeping the whole regiment together, gatling guns, 2nd CAV, etc. You can read about it here and it shows more views of the battlefield. www.boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/20774/battle-little-bighornYou can buy it here: legion-wargames2.mybigcommerce.com/other-conflicts/Also available are Battle of the Rosebud and Adobe Walls. Somewhat Sadly, the Rosebud and the LBH don't connect, but that would not preclude a hypothtical game in which Gibbon, Custer, and Crook all concentrate on the LBH. Hey. It could have happened. Well. Not really. But that's the fun of gaming. In addition to playing, I find it useful to use the game to follow narrative accounts, subject of course to the game scale. This is the 7th Line up. Benteen and the trains are off the map.
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Feb 19, 2021 21:13:59 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2021 21:13:59 GMT
Here is a close up of Reno. The Indian Village and its Pony Herd. Ford B is in the middle of all that.
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Feb 19, 2021 21:14:37 GMT
Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2021 21:14:37 GMT
And the Northern Fords Attachments:
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Feb 20, 2021 11:10:11 GMT
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 20, 2021 11:10:11 GMT
Hi Mike, I remember seeing a lot of those types of board games in the early 1980s, I recall El Alamein, Stalingrad and the bulge.
Ian
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Feb 20, 2021 11:34:28 GMT
Post by quincannon on Feb 20, 2021 11:34:28 GMT
Mike: If you will look on that first of these game maps you posted, the one just under your "In addition to playing" you will find a darker brown patch in the lower right hand corner. That is the defensible high ground I mentioned in an earlier post that I feel if occupied and defended would have been a key in both any battle taking place, and also a position from which Custer would have been on the flank of any attempred movement by Indians from their camp into the Big Horns.
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Feb 20, 2021 12:14:34 GMT
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Post by yanmacca on Feb 20, 2021 12:14:34 GMT
Chuck, I think that dark patch is the compass points, but it does serve to show your area well.
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