New! From Designer Eric Cox comes this definitive collection of flags for China's tumultuous conflicts of the 19th Century, from the Opium and Arrow Wars,...
Hanging around on some of the mini painting boards, the folks who win Golden Demons seem to like to use Future Floor Polish as a medium. Usually mixed 50/50 or...
Dennis, This is really marvellous ! Thanks very much ! I have immediately saved this to avoid danger of not finding it back again. Incidentally: I see lots of...
THIS IS AN AUTO-SEND MESSAGE. YOU HAVE NOT DONE ANYTHING WRONG!! Greetings, ColonialWars strips off attachments. If you want to send & receive attachments,...
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May 1, 2006 1:04 pm
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Hi, has anyone got any suggestions for 15mm crew for Chinese Junks for the colonial era?...
Luc If you save Honest Abe from the assassin's bullet you might have seen a large repatriation project, with huge numbers of freed slaves returned to Africa,...
Has anyone read the John Wilcox novels, one set during the 2nd Afghan War, the second during the Zulu War, and a third I think takes place in the diamond field...
Yes, the officers & sgt. major would wear a very dark navy blue or black tunic with uncovered kepi often. They might also wear a khaki tunic or even an all...
By happy coincidence I toured the Flanders battlefields in the early Spring, just in time for the "Iron Harvest". Slighty unnerving (and fascinating) to see...
Wow - is that a stretch on both accounts. It does not take into account Lincoln's changing views nor what we do know about the assasination. Bob Johnson ...
Hi All, There was a series about a kind of American Flashman called Fenwick Travers set in the late 1890's early 1900's. I have three books in the series and...
Doc; I assume you were busy this weekend with wedding preparation stuff on your days off. George and Bay had out of town guests and went to Jazz Fest here all...
In referance to your question about Shells and Bombs being dug up from WWI/WWII. This is from Wikipedia: "In the forests of Verdun French government ...
I painted, worked in the yard, tended puppies & had a game here on Sunday. Lee & Robert came over for a game of DYDR-Cowpens. I was Tarleton & lost as did he....
I wrote a review of the Fenwick Travers novels a few years ago for The Heliograph. Here it is: BOOK REVIEW Fenwick Travers - Son of Flashman? By Robert Burke...
Yes... *"Chinese" Higbee* ... __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around...
Luc, Glad that you liked my conjuring. Once in a while it is fun to play with history. East Africa (Ethiopia/Somaliland to South Africa) has a wealth of ...
Dennis L. Bishop
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May 2, 2006 3:34 am
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I'm sold on the idea of a French plot being involved in the assassination of Lincoln- simply, I've got some US forces for Wild West games and wanted them to be...
Grant, My thinking is that your figures might be better deployed against the Ndele in 1893, and better 1896. The American Scouts were deployed in the field in...
Dennis L. Bishop
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May 2, 2006 3:59 am
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Yes. If you are painting them, British sergeant stripes (and presumably Egyptian stripes as well) point down. They are worn only on the right sleeve (having...
I read recently about some Native American tribes wanting to move en masse to South America to avoid the advance of white setlers into their homelands. Perhaps...
I like that set up. A very large number of repatriated US slaves forming a government bent on keeping their freedoms from Imperialist French, British and a...
Greetings, When did the US Army go to the larger size companies i.e. around 200 men? I know the British made the transition in the early 20th century so I'm...
