| GiloUK | 01 Apr 2016 2:05 a.m. PST |
In 1782, loyalists waiting in St. Augustine for transportation to "safe" parts of the British Empire vented their frustrations by dressing up a monkey as George Washington and stringing it up outside the town. For the full story of the "Washington Ape", please see my blog: gilesallison.blogspot.co.uk/2016 … ton-2.html [URL=http://s118.photobucket.com/user/GilesAllison/media/216_zpsjwb5u5gu.jpg.html]
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| GarrisonMiniatures | 01 Apr 2016 2:59 a.m. PST |
Wondered where Hartlepool got the idea from. |
Frederick  | 01 Apr 2016 5:31 a.m. PST |
Now that is a specialized mini |
| 79thPA | 01 Apr 2016 6:34 a.m. PST |
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| Eumelus | 01 Apr 2016 2:25 p.m. PST |
Indeed. I don't know why one would go to the trouble of making a miniature of a gratuitous episode of cruelty to a harmless animal. As for the Tories historically responsible, this makes me happy that they were dispossessed and exiled. |
| Supercilius Maximus | 01 Apr 2016 3:20 p.m. PST |
Very clever, Giles. And well painted, too. |
| Zargon | 01 Apr 2016 3:58 p.m. PST |
Well done Giles, sorry for the monkey war does bring out the brute in man, from all sides. Now on to my diarama of Vlad the impailer in front of his 'forest' :/ |
| Early morning writer | 01 Apr 2016 5:30 p.m. PST |
I'm guessing the large ape involved was not, in fact, an ape (except in the biological sense) but much more likely some poor, innocent (or maybe not innocent) African American (in the hemispheric sense) so, perhaps, this miniature glorifies the horrific practice of lynching. At the very least, it is reminiscent of that practice and thus, to me, astonishingly inappropriate. 'Buff said. |
| Clays Russians | 01 Apr 2016 7:37 p.m. PST |
I had three ancestors from the New Jersey line disposed of all "properties and effects" and marched to New York where they were dis-embarked with their women (no children yet) and resettled in NB in Canada. The few NJ Stretch's that took the oath to allegiance, still had to leave NJ, so they went to Penn. to start a new life with family in The Philadelphia area after mending family 'fences' (ancestry .com) |
| Supercilius Maximus | 02 Apr 2016 4:04 a.m. PST |
Congratulations to anyone else who spotted that the entire story was an "April Fool". |
| Eclaireur | 02 Apr 2016 11:01 a.m. PST |
I didn't realise that SM – I was busily researching whether the St Augustine loyalist community contained lots of settlers from Hartlepool… :-) |
paints brigs for the British fleet.
