I have been a reenactor for twenty-seven years portraying a British engineering officer, often as the camp quartermaster at Boston Garrison events. I am also an eleven-year volunteer, in period uniform, at Minuteman National Historic Park, averaging over 350 hours per year. I can usually be found at the grave of the British Soldiers at the North Bridge, or in poor weather, at the Minuteman visitors center Lexington Lincoln town line, where many of the park rangers say, “I’m likely the most photographed man in New England!” I give the perspective from the “other side” of the conflict; my fifth great-grandfather was disarmed by the local committee of safety for wanting to remain neutral.
In early 1775, the town major of Quebec decided to pay a visit to Gen. Thomas Gage in Boston. William Dunbar had been an officer in the 44th Regiment of Foot during the French and Indian War, and although he had sold his regimental commission after that conflict ended, he settled in Canada and been […]
