"Redoubts in the AWI" Topic
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nevinsrip | 02 Nov 2014 3:44 a.m. PST |
Besides Saratoga and Yorktown, how many battles took place where one side or the other was positioned behind redoubts? I just discovered a whole big box of resin cast redoubt sections that I had bought from gentleman who had a small company at one time. When he closed up, I purchased his remaing stock. Maybe 50 pieces or so. Beautiful pieces…I just don't know what to use them for. Any suggestions. |
Ironwolf | 02 Nov 2014 4:42 a.m. PST |
Siege of Savannah link Siege of Charleston link |
Gnu2000 | 02 Nov 2014 4:47 a.m. PST |
Bunker Hill, Savannah, La Vigie, Stony Point, Majabagwaduce, Newport, various actions around New York in 1776, etc Mostly quite small battles. |
Supercilius Maximus | 02 Nov 2014 3:56 p.m. PST |
Nice little action at Boundbrook, NY, that included a couple of large redoubts – nicely shown in a map by Ewald. link |
Pan Marek | 04 Nov 2014 10:28 a.m. PST |
Paulus Hook (Jersey City, NJ). |
Pan Marek | 04 Nov 2014 10:30 a.m. PST |
Also- Meig's Raid (Sag Harbor, NY). |
Old Contemptibles | 05 Nov 2014 3:35 p.m. PST |
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Rawdon | 01 Dec 2014 9:34 a.m. PST |
Ninety-Six, SC. Camden, SC. Georgetown, SC. To a lesser extent, Wilmington and Brunswick, NC. Numerous smaller redoubts throughout the Carolinas. |
Painter Jim | 02 Dec 2014 10:11 p.m. PST |
Looks like you can use them now. |
NY Irish | 05 Dec 2014 5:04 a.m. PST |
The heights at White Plains had them, but they were rather poor and not assaulted. Brooklyn certainly, Kips Bay as well. |
Supercilius Maximus | 05 Dec 2014 5:34 a.m. PST |
The three-pronged British attack on Fort Washington contains a series of fortified lines and isolated redoubts that would make excellent scenarios for brigade-level assaults using "British Grenadier" or battalion-/company-level big skirmish games using Sharp Practice. As well as the heavily-wooded areas scattered with redoubts t the north of the Fort (the area assaulted by the Hessians), you have the succession of lines facing Percy's command to the south, and some difficult redoubts atop high cliffs on the eastern side, which were attacked by the 42nd and the Composite Brigade of Foot Guards. I can't recall the author off-hand, but there is a very good book called "New York's Forts in the Revolution(ary War?)" which describes every major fortification, and also little groups of redoubts forming a single defensive point, from the 1776-83 period. The book was published in the 1950s or 60s, IIRC, and had lots of useful photos (not many plans though, from memory). |
NY Irish | 05 Dec 2014 9:28 p.m. PST |
Lot of redoubts and fortified houses on the British lines north of Manhattan to guard the approaches to Kingsbridge. I like to game skirmishes on these small garrisons and I use small redoubts and a house or two. |
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