"Bacon's Rebellion: America's First Revolutionary?" Topic
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15 Oct 2016 7:59 p.m. PST
by Editor in Chief Bill
- Changed title from "Bacon's Rebellion : America's Fist Revolutionary?" to "Bacon's Rebellion: America's First Revolutionary?"
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| Tango01 | 15 Oct 2016 12:36 p.m. PST |
"Nathaniel Bacon was caught in a dilemma on a hot July day in 1676. The settlers' avowed enemy, the Susquehannocks and their allies, were in front of him in the upper counties of Virginia while Governor William Berkeley's English army and militia were getting ready to attack Bacon from the rear. Hundreds of landowners, indentured servants, slaves and other volunteers making up Bacon's army waited for orders. Ever the strategist, the 29-year-old rebel addressed his army, "Gentlemen and fellow soldiers, the news just brought to me may not a little startle you as well as myselfe. The Governour is now in Gloster County endeavouring to raise forces against us, having declared us Rebells and Traytors…. They had rather wee should be Murder'd and our Ghosts sent to our slaughter'd Countrymen by their actings, than we should live to hinder them of their Interest with the Heathen." [1] The aristocratic plantation owner and self-declared "General by Consent of the People" turned his army back to Jamestown—better to attack the Governor at once than have him hit them from the rear while engaged in the woods with the tribes…"
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| Winston Smith | 16 Oct 2016 9:02 a.m. PST |
Fascinating. A campaign where nobody is a Good Guy.
And of course the ones who suffer the most are the Indians. Much like the campaigns in East Africa between the British and Germans. Those who suffered most were of course the black Africans. I imagine that the King Philip's War figures from Brigade Games would be indispensable. Also Eureka's Powhatan Indians.
Just off the top of my head, I would also use any Sedgemoore figures, Old Glory pirate Voodoo Warriors, anybody's pirate figures with muskets, etc. Rules? For a starter TSATF. |
| Tango01 | 16 Oct 2016 2:57 p.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it John!. (smile)
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