tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post8224389993216087466..comments2024-03-28T13:23:25.055-07:00Comments on Chant du Départ: The Bloody Morning ScoutOldAFSargehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-16598081187228203952021-07-15T18:04:58.175-07:002021-07-15T18:04:58.175-07:00I've done horrible things with apostrophes...
...I've done horrible things with apostrophes...<br /><br />Typos, mere typos. I know how to use 'em, apparently I also know how to abuse them.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-68231091914446291342021-07-15T16:32:39.822-07:002021-07-15T16:32:39.822-07:00Good one again, Sarge, and good stopping point--al...Good one again, Sarge, and good stopping point--always leave 'em (us) wanting more!<br />As for humbug, gently, if you choose to use them:<br />"...in William's detachment..." and "upon William's column": in both cases, it should be "Williams'". James owns James' possessions.<br />My name is Budd, and I'm a pedant. (is there a Pedants Anonymous?)<br />--Tennessee BuddAnonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-63962575667942091592021-07-15T11:13:32.697-07:002021-07-15T11:13:32.697-07:00Apostrophes, bah, humbug.
I will be wheels up thi...Apostrophes, bah, humbug.<br /><br />I will be wheels up this Sunday. No book stuff, just vignettes from my trip out to occupied California. The plan is to try and get the final edits into the WWII book. If I can find time from working 60 hours a week!OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-63736477662472506782021-07-15T11:10:17.989-07:002021-07-15T11:10:17.989-07:00Sometimes it all boiled down to who could give the...Sometimes it all boiled down to who could give them the better deal.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-35425942374062620762021-07-15T09:35:37.160-07:002021-07-15T09:35:37.160-07:00Well, "hoping that Colonel Ephraim Williams p...Well, "hoping that Colonel Ephraim Williams party..." poses an interesting question. I know what you're thinking. Did he apostrophe or not? Well, to tell you the truth, in all this excitement, I've kinda lost track myself. But being as this is The Chant, the most powerful Blog in the world, and Buck would chew your head clean off, you've got to ask yourself one question: "Do I feel lucky?" Well, do ya, OAFS?”<br /><br />Other than that, damned fine story. The interweaving of historical fact into the historical fiction is what makes it especially spicy good. Looking forward to the mini-series, but do make sure you have creative control over the costuming, maybe get some costume nerd to do it correctly (including hair, makeup and such. No 90's Beach Wave hair!)<br /><br />Nothing is like fighting in closed woods. Where one minute you don't hear anything and the next you can hear noises from miles away. Did that in the SCA the first time we had the (Florida vs Texas) war in Mississippi, in June, and it was hot. And the boundary markers for the Woods Battle (fighting in a woods, seriously) were, hrmmmm... sparse. Story to follow, POCIR...<br /><br />Looking forward to the next installment.<br /><br />When do you ship out and posts from you become scarce?Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-59128963801738198642021-07-15T09:26:46.965-07:002021-07-15T09:26:46.965-07:00Trying to follow the shifting alliances and changi...Trying to follow the shifting alliances and changing sides of the various tribes will drive you crazy. Factions within factions. Followers of this strong man or that. <br /><br />Worse than pre-1120's Ireland or, well, Scotland until the 1740's or most of the Middle East until Churchill drew all the pretty lines in the desert... and after, too!<br /><br />And, of course, any generalized statement like what I just made is so fraught with inaccuracy and generalization as to... prove the statement, sort of.<br /><br />Yes, some tribes and factions stuck with treaties and pacts. Until... Beanshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15293778848879361153noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-33945452733936660552021-07-15T09:17:43.681-07:002021-07-15T09:17:43.681-07:00I've been there a few times myself.I've been there a few times myself.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-6675917465934893902021-07-15T08:56:59.414-07:002021-07-15T08:56:59.414-07:00I thought it looked familiar, Ticonderoga was the ...I thought it looked familiar, Ticonderoga was the only fort we looked at up in that part of the world. Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-10999039350605640522021-07-15T08:25:48.391-07:002021-07-15T08:25:48.391-07:00Ticonderoga in New York, which the French called C...Ticonderoga in New York, which the French called Carillon.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-65961047683253786942021-07-15T08:17:15.969-07:002021-07-15T08:17:15.969-07:00Which fort is that in the header picture?Which fort is that in the header picture?Robhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05450082315014407506noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-39906649431283697682021-07-15T07:44:29.475-07:002021-07-15T07:44:29.475-07:00That ambush in The Last of the Mohicans of the def...That ambush in <i>The Last of the Mohicans</i> of the defeated English withdrawing from Fort William Henry actually happened.<br /><br />At the Monongahela the French weren't really ready to ambush the English, but it felt like an ambush. At the Bloody Morning Scout the French laid a very effective ambush. The French and Indians knew that to try and go toe to toe with the English was too fraught with peril. Why do that when the English will march into your ambush?<br /><br />I didn't know of the Canawaughga Mohawks until I began researching this post. An interesting story there.OldAFSargehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15935839956936191547noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7684531976778247960.post-19605094739214717022021-07-15T05:59:44.510-07:002021-07-15T05:59:44.510-07:00What an utterly confusing situation. The regional...What an utterly confusing situation. The regional loyalties conflated things as well, Mohawks on both sides and warning each other.<br /><br />Eerily reminiscent of the ambush scene in The Last Of The Mohicans.Toirdhealbheach Beucailhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14872794169534403463noreply@blogger.com