"Battle of Telegraph Hill 1776 - Devon Wargames Group" Topic

This weekend gone I had the pleasure of wheeling out the new AWI collection at club in a fictitious engagement modelled on that fought at Chatterton's Hill during the Battle of White Plains in October 1776.

As well as sorting out the forces for the game, there was a certain level of getting back up to speed with the rules in use, namely Rise & Fight Again by Stand to Games.

If you would like to know more then just follow the link to the club blog.

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JJ

Great looking units.

Thanks for sharing

Would a hill in 1776 be named telegraph?

The telegraph as we know it was invented around 1838. The first known usage in English dates to around 1794, when Claude Chappe's optical telegraph system was used in revolutionary France. This system used towers with pivoting arms to convey information across long distances. By the 1790s, the English word telegraph was used to describe similar systems in Britain and elsewhere.

No matter what you call this battle, it looks great.

Hi Chaps,
Thanks for your comments and glad you liked the game. The AWI collection will be a theme going forward and I'm looking forward to adding to the collection and producing more games.

As regards the name Telegraph Hill. As mentioned in the AAR, my battle is fictitious and based on the Battle of Chatterton's Hill, and thus I renamed it after a ‘well known local landmark', a reasonable choice I think for a fictitious action.

Telegraph Hill is a local feature that has been used for centuries to signal the local area by using beacons, most notably during the Spanish Armada to warn of the entry of the Spanish fleet into the English Channel, it was later incorporated into the chain of high features along the south coast of England to have a signalling or telegraph station linking the Admiralty in London to the naval bases of Plymouth and Portsmouth in use during the 18th & 19th centuries.

Cheers
JJ

what was it called before Telegraph Hill?