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(FYI: each new year's schedule is usually posted in late February.)

Drills, Practices, Meetings

Pre-Battle-Road drill: March 25, Wayside Inn, starting promptly at 6:30pm. Full uniform is not required; however please make sure to bring a musket, your hat, and a cartridge box.

2009 Event Schedule

DateUnitEvent
Mar 7 civ. Boston Massacre, Boston, MA
Mar 15 85e Evacuation Day Parade, South Boston, MA. Voted event.
Mar 21 4th Muster Day—Hartwell Tavern, 10am–3pm. Voted event. Highly recommended for Battle Road attendence.
Apr 11 4th Bedford Pole Capping, Bedford Minutemen
Apr 19 civ. Jason Russell House Battle, Menotomy Minutemen
Apr 18–19 4th Battle Road, Hartwell Tavern and Tower Park. Voted event. Please note: On account of this year being its 50th anniversary, MMNHP is making stricter requirements for accuracy: "A jacket or frock coat is required for military impressions. Waistcoats and shirtsleeves, and smocks are not acceptable for soldiers under arms. Leather coats and fringed frontier/rifle/hunting shirts are not acceptable. All garments must be of natural material only. Synthetic materials are a fire hazard. ... Horizontally striped stockings are forbidden." MMNHP will supply all cartridges. These requirements apply to MMNHP only, and cartridges will not be supplied for Tower Park.
May 3 Rebecca Nurse Homestead, School of the Soldier. Danvers—Danvers Alarm Co./HMS Somerset. Voted event.
May 16–17 85e? Jerusalem Mills, MD. BB event. Voted event.
85e Memorial Day Parade Somerville, MA
No participation this year.
May 25 85e Memorial Day Parade Andover, MA
Dress is French, white gaiters, full canteens. Directions.
May 31 Minute Cub Muster, Westford. MinuteCubs. Voted event.
June 5–7 Tewksbury 275th, 16th QLD & 10th Foot. Voted event.
June 13–14 Black Rock, New Haven, CT, 5th CT host.
June 27–28 4th The Rising Storm, MMNHP (Hartwell), MA, 10th MA host. Voted event.
July 11–12 4th? Fort Sewell—Marblehead Point, Marblehead, MA, 10th MA host.
July 18–19 85e Liberty Day—Sylvanus Thayer House, Braintree, MA. See flyer, schedule, scenario.
Aug 1–2 85e Redcoats to Rebels, Old Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge, MA. Voted event.
Aug 29–30 4th? Newtown, Binghamton, NY. Mid-Atlantic Department of the Continental Line sponsor. Voted event.
Sept 12–13 4th? Fort Ticonderoga, NY. Voted event.
Sept 13 4th? Fairfield, CT, 5th CT host.
Sept 26 85e Sudbury Colonial Faire. Voted event.
Sept 25–26 85e? Gelston Castle, Warren, NY
Oct 2–4 85e? Battle of Crane Brook, Rebecca Nurse Homestead, Danvers, MA. Danvers Alarm List host. Voted event.
Oct 3 85e? Fife and Drum Muster, Granby, CT.
Oct 3 85e? Germantown, Philadelphia, PA.
Oct 16–18 85e? Burning of Kingston, Kingston, NY. 1st Ulster host.
Oct 25 85e? Fort Mercer, NJ.
Nov 7 85e? Battle of Red Horse Tavern, Wayside Inn, Sudbury, MA. Voted event.
Nov 7–8 85e? Hope Lodge, Fort Washington, PA.

Prior Years' Schedules

  • 2008 event schedule
  • 2007 event schedule
  • 2006 event schedule
  • 2005 event schedule
  • 2004 event schedule
  • 2003 event schedule
  • 2002 event schedule
  • 2001 event schedule
  • 2000 event schedule
  • 1999 event schedule
  • 1998 event schedule
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Editor's Note: An explanation of the page title:

While the [French] expeditionary force was in Newport in November and December 1780, Rochambeau had a newspaper printed for his soldiers, the «Gazette Françoise».

Documented by a French scholar -- Marc Martin -- in a work entitled «Les origines de la presse millitaire en France», this was apparently the first instance of a newspaper directed at the common soldier (soldat) and predates the next instance by 12 years!
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