Battelfield Research Site - Some Nice FIW (1 Viewer)

[Fraxinus]

http://www.offthebeatenpath.ws/Battlefields/

On the left hand side, there is a menu for a number of battlefields including Monongahela, Jumonville Glen (kinda started the whole French Indian War), and of course the sorely missed --- Bushy Run!!!!! The Monongahela has a link to a google earth file (goes to Google Earth, so it is interactive if you have Google Earth installed) that I found very interesting - the person has Braddock's March mapped, so you can zoom in and out and follow the march across Pennsylvania.

I would think that a diorama Jumonville Glen might be very Mike Miller friendly, especially, with his new found skill with rock formations.

 

[Fraxinus]

If you take the interactive Google Earth link mentioned below and follow the blue line north, it leads to Pittsburgh and Fort Duquesne. The outline of Fort Duquesne has been traced in stone as part of a park. The fort itself is very much on the "tiny" side, only 160 feet or so from bastion point to bastion point. Just to the south, across the highway, you can see a tracing of one of the bastion for Fort Pitt ---- a 5 bastion fort construction by the British after the French blew-up Fort Duquesne. Massive difference in size. And you have to love the scaling feature (ruler) in Google Earth that allows you to measure distances!!!!

http://www.offthebeatenpath.ws/Battlefields/Monongahela/index.html

 

[lancer]

Fantastically interesting site. Thanks for posting it. I love the 'now and then' aspect. -- Al

 

[mikemiller1955]

http://www.offthebeatenpath.ws/Battl...ela/index.html

Ken...this was a great read on Dradock's defeat...thank you...

 

[Combat]

Did someone say Bushy Run?