"The Battle of St. Louis, the Attack on Cahokia ..." Topic

…and the American Revolution in the West.

"Taking a short break from talking about the book artists, a little bit about the book contents. The book is 328 pages large format book in all color with a few hundred images (new art, maps, prints, museum photos, etc) but that includes over 22 pages of endnotes (footnotes at the end) necessary for an in depth look at this history…."

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Amicalement
Armand

I don't see this at amazon .Is it new?
Mark

Too bad none of the modern manufacturers make 28mm Spanish. This looks like a super interesting theater.

I agree.
Mark

Glad you like it boys!. (smile)

Amicalement
Armand

Historifigs, the old Scruby miniatures line) make Spanish in 28mm. There a newer line of there's. They look pretty good.

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Oooooh.
I'll have to get some.

Author here. Did not know someone posted this. The Spanish used a combination of regulars from Spain, fixed regiments (local regulars) and militia in North America. Colonial defense was completely reorganized after the disaster of the Seven Years War. The defense of St. Louis was by a small detachment of fixed regiment troops, a few hundred infantry militia and a small cavalry militia company. The strike force against St. Joseph was all local militia and a few area traders. Many of the militia were hunters and boatmen skilled in rough terrain movement and the ones used for offensive operations. Galvez used fixed regiment troops and Louisiana militia for his Mississippi River campaigns and later also had regulars from Spain in his gulf coast campaigns plus some French. The Spanish and French also had a planned invasion of Jamaica and the Spanish with some American help took the Bahamas Islands. I have all of these campaigns covered in the book.

So it sounds like maybe one could get away with just using standard Revwar militia for these battles plus perhaps some FiW frontiersmen or maybe mountain men types against standard British. Pepper this with some Spanish officers and you're good to go. I notice that the Indians from the cover have more of a plains look to them rather than woodland. Maybe convert some of the plains Indians available to use muskets instead of winchesters or give some woodland Indians plains Indian heads. I would love to see someone do a dedicated range for this. Maybe the Perry's will read the book and decide they want to game it…

When is this due out?
Mark

Pre-orders can be made here: link

The book will be officially released on May 21 at the Missouri History Museum annual commemoration of the battle. The pre-orders will be shipped out in order received after the commemoration.

The table of contents is listed on the pre-order page.

I have my pre-order in.
Mark

Thanks Mark. The book will be released right after my talk on it at the Missouri History Museum on May 21. I have some pictures from the book up on the FB page and will be posting more this weekend.

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The book is now available and can be ordered here:

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We still some special book marks left and will include those with purchases while they last.

The book looks great, Stever. It's a bit pricey for me, but I'll request that the Toronto Public Library acquire a copy. In the meantime, I've added it to my WorldCat bibliography:
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Received mine yesterday and it's a beautiful book and would enhance anyone's collection.
Mark

I will be at George Rogers Clark National Historical Park on Saturday speaking about the book in their auditorium if anyone in the area is interested.

I just finished re- reading Robert Thom's "Long Knife" afterfor first time since I got it. Not bad for a historical novel. Does it stand up to C21st scrutiny?

Um- 'Robert'? Who's 'Robert'

The author was James Alexander Thom.

I covered that battle in my articles on loyalist forces, Spanish operations and Native First Nation forces. It kept being mentioned so I researched it and enjoyed the various articles that I found.
Great small and skirmish battle scenario.