Hi all,
Thanks very much for your comments and glad you liked the post.
I have had a long interest in the activities along the New York, Quebec border in the AWI and War of 1812 since and before visiting the area with my long-suffering wife, on a honeymoon trip to the States in 1988.
The book ‘The Burning of the Valleys' by Canadian historian and a re-enactor in the KRRNY, Gavin K. Watt is a great resource for the campaigns of Butler, Johnson, Brant and others that followed in the wake of Saratoga, and particularly Johnson's ‘Great Raid in 1780 that culminated in the Battles of Stone Arabia and Klock's Field.
In addition the local historians in the area have put up some great resources on the web recounting the experiences from the American perspective and my previous posts on the blog link to them, together with the excellent period maps of the Mohawk and Cherry Valleys that have inspired a planned Sharp Practice campaign.
I think the variety of units this theatre generates together with the multiple mini-campaigns fought in the area makes it a perfect theme for Sharp Practice and other similarly large skirmish type rules and has long been a collection in the planning.
I look forward to being able to do some game AAR's once the collection is done.
Games Poet – Thank you, Will and his Year Group are a remarkable bunch of graduates taking everything that was thrown at them in their studies as they were called on to respond to the pandemic, and so it was extra special to be able to celebrate their achievement.
Cheers
JJ
