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Summer Training Weekend 2025

Following a cancellation in our public events calendar, a small group of le Gatinois met for a wonderful time sewing, drilling, trying out some new period card games, and otherwise generally enjoying each others’ company. After all, why do we…

Introducing the Voices of Williamsburg

Whilst we are heavily focused on our impression of the French army during the #RevWar, this is not to suggest that we are only a military group! We have a growing range of civilian impressions – the “Voices of Williamburg”…

Moira Furnace 2025

Our latest visit to Moira Furnace Museum and Country Park was a little different to our previous outings. We provided our usual demonstration of French uniform and weaponry, sentry duties, and continual public engagement…but this time the main scenario was…

Caption Competition

Here we see the Caporal with his signature (French?) look of disdain…but what has attracted his ire this time? Our favourite suggestions included:- “Who left the cheese out in the sun?”- “Did someone use the wrong glass for the wine?”-…

Drill…again!

Every army had to teach its men to load and fire its muskets: the British had their 1764 Manual Exercise, and the French had the 1776 Ordonnance de Roi. In this image, we can see the soldats at the first…

Le Soldat Mécontent?

All the world’s a stage, and all the men and women merely players; they have their exits and their entrances, and one reenactor in his time plays many parts. At first, the recrue, with his borrowed uniform and shining morning…

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