"The Battle of Sitka - Why Alaska is not Part of Canada" Topic

"The reason Alaska is not part of Canada has much to do with the Battle of Sitka.

On the morning of Sept. 30, 1804, the Chief Katlian stood on a promontory that would become Sitka and stared out over a harbor choked with hundreds of Aleut baidarkas (kayaks) and a small Russian warship, the Neva. Two years earlier, Katlian and his Tlingit warriors had massacred the 150 inhabitants of Redoubt St. Michael, founded by Russia-American Company Gov. Alexander Baranov just six miles to the east. Baranov had purchased the land from the Sitka Tlingits in good faith. Now Baranov was back, having led this fleet of kayaks and the Russian warship across more than a thousand miles of open water to take back southeast Alaska.

The Tlingit warriors were armed with rifles and two cannons supplied by Hudson Bay Company traders who wanted the Russians removed. Katlian had already built a fall-back fortification a few miles to the south along Indian River. After Baranov charged the rock outcropping with a handful of Russian soldiers and allied Aleut warriors, the Tlingits retreated to their Indian River fortification. Baranov, wounded in the battle, had the fort bombarded by the Neva before ordering an assault by
Russians and Aleuts. But Katlian had outflanked him by sending a force downriver, then coming up behind the Russians and breaking up the attack.

For five days, Baranov kept the Tlingit fort under siege; meanwhile, British traders sent guns and ammunition to the besieged Tlingits. Unexpectedly, a British canoe carrying much needed powder exploded. On the sixth day, the Russians discovered the Tlingits had left the fort, having covered the retreat of their families to the opposite side of the island and across a narrow straight to Chichagof Island…"
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Anyone has tried to wargame this battle?

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Armand

Happy you enjoyed it my friend!.

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Armand

I'd be tempted to impulse buy figs and start a new project if there were new and shiny figs for the subject…

I remember a thread mentioning this conflict a few years ago. People discussed available minis andpossibleconversions. It certainly sounds like a unique scenario!

Hope you can wargame it my friend.

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Armand