"The Battle Of Newton Station " Topic
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| Tango01 | 22 Apr 2016 9:18 p.m. PST |
Cool!
More here
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Armand |
| darthfozzywig | 22 Apr 2016 9:42 p.m. PST |
That is cool. I really like that movie. |
| gamershs | 22 Apr 2016 10:01 p.m. PST |
Liked the movie but lets face it, charging down the street would be extremely dumb. It did look good in the movie though. |
| A P Hill | 23 Apr 2016 8:00 a.m. PST |
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| Tango01 | 23 Apr 2016 10:38 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it boys!. (smile) Amicalement
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| capncarp | 23 Apr 2016 11:08 a.m. PST |
The John Wayne figure was a 54mm one, to keep things in perspective, right? |
Nick Stern  | 26 Apr 2016 12:05 p.m. PST |
IIRC, the Rebs were hoping to catch the Union cavalry by surprise and it was only by a lucky chance that John Wayne's character figured things out and was able to prepare a defense. In that way, it makes sense to me that the Rebs would put all their chances into one all out charge. Plus, what would an ACW movie be without a Rebel charge? Beautiful set-up. I have a train and most of the figures to play this but I need more houses. |
| Ammianus | 06 Jun 2016 9:02 a.m. PST |
John Wayne and John Ford's movie, The Horse Soldiers, was based on the novel, The Horse Soldiers by Harold Sinclair ..
which was probably based on D.Brown's "Grierson's Raid."
The raid into Mississippi was a highly successful part of Grant's Vicksburg campaign. Grierson's Raid
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Newton Station
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The novel::
link As a boy my grandmother told me how her grandmother's family hid their salt (a necessity then for reserving food) from the Yankees who were raiding near Newton & Meridian MS. |
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