1812 Reenactment

For those of you that might be interested this weekend was the 200th anniversary of the reenactment for the Battle of Mississenewa.  The reenactment itself is actually a living history with a battle reenactment of British forces vs. US forces.  Mississenewa is located in northern half Indiana and the event has been going strong for 25 plus years.  Anyways heres a couple of links.  First one's to my youtube channel with some reenactment battle footage.  Second link is to the Mississenewa website itself.  The battle reenactment this year was pretty small compared to previous years, with last year's being the largest.  There were a lot of missing British reenactors, I'm guessing most of them went to the Battle of Queenston Heights reenactment.  Anyways check out the links.

http://www.youtube.com/user/SgtHiner/videos?flow=grid&view=0

http://www.mississinewa1812.com/

Very cool! I'll have to watch those when I have time. 

I've always wondered,why are so many re-enactors overweight? Doesn't seem very historically accurate.

James Grant said:

I've always wondered,why are so many re-enactors overweight? Doesn't seem very historically accurate.

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And 50+?

Maroon said:

James Grant said:

I've always wondered,why are so many re-enactors overweight? Doesn't seem very historically accurate.

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And 50+?

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I honestly think it's a generation type of thinking.  I know there's always the exceptions but the younger generation simply either doesn't care or can't afford to do reenacting.

EDIT: I know a few of the videos are pretty short, but when I get the time I'm gonna try my hand at making some kind of trailer or something.