Sir can you respectfully delay the event as my regiment in regards to ultra extreme realism prefers to travel to the event in horse and wagon it could take 3-4 days so please delay it by that amount (please also note by the time you get this we will be late as you never got this)
Hi Brandon, I'm the reenactor you met in Lexington on Saturday of that weekend, the one in the green coat at the end. On Monday Stow company at 7 a.m. called off the trail March from stow to Concord in West Concord. we were all drowned rats and both drummers were out of commission do to blisters on their feet or their drum literally becoming swamped with water. We never made it to the North bridge and the exhausted group of 45 of us call it off. But later that day and a few runs in the dryer I was marching in The Lexington Patriots day parade. Notably on Sunday the events ran smoothly at the Arlington reenactment. I will try to send footage of it to you when it becomes available.
You want to go to an "event like that"? Join the Marines. They'll send you to an "event like that". It won't be fun, but it'll make a man out of you. What this clown is doing is making a mockery of sacrifice and horror. What actually happened on Lexington Common bears no resemblance to what this gaggle of fools is doing. Sure, the clothes look similar and the weapons look similar. And the similarities end there. Where these clowns are putting on a circus, playing at army, the men who actually showed up that morning to defy an empire stood there, grim and steady, outnumbered and outmatched. When fired upon, they returned fire - with powder and ball, and not with blanks. They were routed by overwhelming force, and some of them died. There was no pancake breakfast afterwards. The battle continued, and the British were driven back to Boston under fire - again, real fire, those charges were sending musket balls at people with the intent to kill. And at the end of the day, orphans and widows were left in tears. Lives were ended, others were ruined. And everyone's world changed. Nobody went back the next day to their humdrum lives. These events show zero respect for the men who fought. They're a mockery. It's disgusting and disgraceful, and everyone involved ought to be ashamed of themselves.
@@MrEvanfriend Hence the word reenactment. The goal of the reenactment is to provide a unique understanding of what went down and how it went down to the viewers. It's not like they are running around with kalashnikovs and driving in a hummer with 50 mounted up top. So no, their memory is not being insulted. If you're upset over this, I urge you to evaluate your self.
@@christopherstone4336 You miss the point entirely. If you think this foolishness provides any understanding of what happened, you are entirely naive. This is a bunch of clowns playing - aside from the clothes they wear, it bears absolutely zero resemblance to what the actual battle would have been like. "Reenactment" is not an accurate term here. "Farce" or "satire" would be far more accurate - these clowns don't understand just how farcical they look. And what they're doing doesn't help anyone gain any understanding - it's detrimental to anyone's understanding. By focusing on the superficial aspects of a given event - the clothes the participants wore - they manage to completely dismiss the more important aspects. A battle isn't "these guys wearing these clothes stand over here and those guys dressed in those clothes stand over there, then we all point muskets at each other and shoot, but nobody gets hurt". And these silly demonstrations are just that. It gives false understanding - and by doing so, it is counterproductive to knowledge of history. And it's also grossly disrespectful. It makes a game of a traumatic event, an event where people died. It takes war, strips it of all its meaning, of all its horrors, of all of the best and the worst that it can bring out in men, and reduces it to a party. It sees the participants as nothing more than mannequins to display the period costumes that they wear. If you're not offended by that, I suggest that you think about that. It reduces suffering to fun and men to costumes, while making a mockery of understanding and knowledge. I'd say that's rather objectively offensive.
Brandon always look forward to your blogs. I’m a War between the States reenactor. 1st Texas Co L. My go to music on the way to the event is Carry me back to Virginia by Old Crow Medicine Show.
Staying up all night, marching through the rain. You really did get the full authentic experience. Though I doubt the real troops stopped for a pancake breakfast on their way to Concord.
Actually I have a colonial re-enactor who participates in a March from the stow to Concord that same day and we stop for a breakfast burrito breakfast in West Concord.
Interesting to see the practical use of your hat - turned round when it was raining to keep the rain off your face. I imagine this is just how if would have been used originally - and perhaps untied to give a wider covering.
Hey Brandon, my dad was in the 10th in the late 80s-early 90s. I grew up right down the road near the Hancock - Clarke house. My pop was actually an extra in the made for TV movie April Morning. He’s battalion and up front with the yellow facings when they are marching onto the green. Anyway, strong work as always old boy
Hey Brandon... I liked your video !!!, I've always liked the recreation of historical battles, in fact I sent me to make a British Soldier costume similar to the one you used in this video, and I went to comics and manga conventions (there is a manga-anime called "Hetalia", in which the characters play each country in the world, and the character who plays U. K, wears several military costumes, among them that of the 18th-century soldier) with the It's fun! I own a big flag of the United Kingdom and use it with my cosplay. Recently I discovered your TH-cam channel, I like your content, keep going!, Greetings from VENEZUELA !!!
That's the problem. This nonsense is "fun". A real battle isn't fun - as any of these assholes playing at war would know if they had the balls to join the actual military instead of dressing up like historical soldiers. And by making a party out of a battle, they're mocking and disrespecting the men who actually fought there. The whole thing is unbelievably disgusting.
@@FBIAGENT725 So the dead can't be mocked, is that what you're saying? And I don't believe that any of these clowns actually served, especially not in combat. One look at this foolishness would be enough to repulse pretty much any veteran I know, myself included. Nostalgia is one thing, and certainly a big thing among vets, but this nonsense? I don't doubt that these assholes get a couple vets who show up, who have some initial interest, but I imagine they all leave in disgust rather quickly.
@@MrEvanfriend the dead can be mocked but would you rather have a bunch of people who research this stuff and try their best to remake it or people forget what really happened
Hey, I have a similar tradition. When I am driving to my airsoft field in my full WW2 German kit, I listen and sing along to my playlist of German marching songs. Westerwald and Das Panzerlied are my favourite so far.
Tremendous stuff Sir. You are most fortunate to engage in such activities, I get a sense of camaraderie among the other participants in-kit. I sometimes work as an extra in television and film: the experience one gets from being somewhere so early in the morning, exposed to nature's inhospitable elements for long hours, in crowds decked in particular outfits and costumes creates a feeling of bonding over mutual predicaments and discomfiture, by days end; talking as though we have known each other for years and are the best of friends, an auxiliary unit in society an identity shared - then we wrap and revert to total strangers who don't even acknowledge one another on the way out. Surreal. Wish I could participate in such activities, it was my dream to own an 18th Century military uniform when I was 14. Have always championed and loved the period.
Yeah....I wasn't going to give you a ticket, but you're a disgusting little disrespectful chode, so you'll be getting one. Now go home, take that costume off, and do some serious thinking about how you've disrespected men who fought and died.
@@MrEvanfriend I would just say that people's primary goal who do this is education. It might be a dramatic style of education, but first of all, accurate historical movies do much of the same thing, and also, it can be a much more effective teaching tool than sitting in a classroom. Imagine a young child going to an event like this, they see the authentic uniforms of the men in the battles, often times on the ground where they were fought, and they can hear and see the muskets and cannons firing, and see a relatively accurate depiction of how the commanders would direct their men. I believe it would only be disrespectful if they didn't pay so much attention to detail. All of the uniforms are authentically made with high quality fabrics and dyes to the exact specifications of their historical counterparts, and tailor made to fit like the real thing would. These people do what they do to give people an impression as to what one of these battles would've looked like. They often answer questions afterwards about the engagement, uniform, and life of the soldier during this period. Disrespectful would be slappimg together a half assed nylon costume and using at most a cap lock. These people spend a fair amount of time studying and practicing authentic drill, marching techniques, and commands. To call that utter compliance to detail disrespectful is strange. Finally, if you saw a video about reenactors, whom you evidently don't like, why did you even watch something that you knew you would hate?
@@staalman1226 The thing that you miss is the most important part - combat. Now, I've been in combat myself, with the United States Marines in Fallujah, Iraq. I know what it is to fight. What you're doing isn't that. It misses all the key elements that makes combat what it is, and focuses on superficial nonsense like what the combatants were wearing.
You volunteer with the 54th guys? I worked with them at the Nathanael Greene Homestead a couple of years ago. It was a good time. They were short people. Most guys were up at Mount Vernon in NH for the weekend. Good guys.
I'm a militia re-enactor, this is completely normal, same day I wake up at 4 a.m. so that by 4:30 we can March off Stows lower Commons. We then proceeded to March until 9 a.m. a distance of 9 miles to reach the Battle of North bridge reenactment. Then I head to the 2 o clock Lexington Patriots day parade. He's not crazy he's normal
@@jacobqyv How can you justify what you do? How can you disrespect the men who showed up at Lexington Commons to defy an empire by making a circus of their sacrifice? On that morning, they weren't whinging about waking up early. They were standing there, armed and ready, grim and resolute, to stop the world's most powerful army. Most of them were surely terrified, yearning with every fiber of their body to be anywhere else, only staying because their fear of shame was worse than their fear of death. They surely knew that not all of them would be going home. That there would be no pancake breakfasts and parades afterwards. And that the regulars in whose way they stood would have their muskets loaded with powder and ball, and not blanks. When you go and play at war like this, there is none of that. None of the terror, none of the steadfast courage that keeps you there in spite of the terror. You're doing it for fun. You're making a show - a circus - of it. And as a veteran of a real war, I find it absolutely disgraceful what you're doing. Next time you put on your costume and go play at battles - play at the worst day in many men's lives and the last day in some of them - ask yourself this: if a veteran of the actual battle you're playing at saw you, what would he think? Because I know if I saw some people in costume reenacting Fallujah, I'd be incensed and I'd put a stop to it. If you want to march in parades, that's fine. If you want to put on your costume and talk to schools and tourist groups and what have you, I have no problem with that. But these reenactments of battles are unbelievably disrespectful to the men who fought and died there. War is not fun. War is not a game. And you're reducing it to a game. You're making a party of horror and bloodshed. Your "recreations" come nowhere near recreating an actual fight - nobody gets hurt, nobody is in any real danger, there's none of the fear, none of the small acts of valor or cowardice, none of the stench of death and blood, none of the screams of wounded and dying men. You ignore the essence of what war is, and focus on the costumes and equipment. And I must say, it shocks the conscience. Give what you're doing some serious thought. Whatever your intentions may be, you're mocking heroes who fought and died so that our nation might be free.
@@jacobqyv You don't intend to disrespect them. But this nonsense where you go around sloppily shooting blanks at each other in mock "battles" that are supposed to represent actual battles is disrespectful in and of itself. If you want to march in parades, or talk to school groups, or do the whole Colonial Williamsburg thing, I have no problem with that. It's this mocking of battles in the name of "reenactment" that comes nowhere close to the essence of these battles that I find grossly disrespectful.
These assholes aren't soldiers. And nobody who has ever been in or around the military would mistake them for soldiers. These are clowns, dressing up in costumes and putting on a circus. They tell themselves that by dressing up in costumes, they're "reenacting" a battle, but what they're really doing is performing some pathetic and disrespectful satire of a battle, and mocking the participants. These assholes like to nitpick over how "this button on your fuckin pants isn't 100% historically accurate", then, without any notion of irony whatsoever, assemble into their "units" comprised largely of middle-aged fat men and entirely of people with zero military bearing, then gagglefuck and diddy bop - not march - their way to a "battle" where they shoot blanks at each other - again, without any semblance of military bearing, without looking even remotely like they're under fire, without any struggle whatsoever - and then when they're done, they all go and party together. The whole thing is rather disgusting, when you think about it.
Steel wool ( 3 or 4 OO) the rust and it becomes a lovely brown patina I suppose that is what happened to the brown Bess over the years anyway. . All of the flintlocks I see at my gun club, mine included are browned not blued. Browning is controlled rust. done right it gives a beautiful plum brown color . I am building a .62 smooth bore fowler and it will be browned also.
Honestly it varies massively from group to group and impression to impression. A Hessian officer kit will be far more expensive than an American militiaman. Some groups have loaner kit, others require you to buy it all right at the start. I'd recommend having around 2500 dollars set aside for it no matter what, though speak with as many groups as you can before you commit anywhere.
Brandon F. Thanks for quick response. I am definitely going to start looking into it and begin talking with some groups. And by the way I loved your video with those idiots talking about 17th century line warfare lol. There is a video that they call the Zulu “African Americans” 🤦♂️..
@@zackhartley4718 I have to agree with Brandon prices do vary, I know the full set from the king's own regiment 4th foots set up costs roughly 1200 bucks that excludes the musket but the uniform is custom-tailored to yourself. Custom hand stitching one per se for a militiamen is far less expensive but far more time consuming.
hell on the wabash is prob my favorite historical tune. Thanks though to Gettysburg (film), I'll never be able to disassociate it from the Iron Brigade.
By moving at zero dark thirty to your objective by sunrise, you are getting a closer taste of true military history. Now imagine marching all night before the fight, as that's what has been done, and is still being done, and will always be done. It's a hard life being a soldier, followed by trauma, injury, and death.
I just brought the frames in to my doctor and asked if they could put my prescription in them- I think it was around $80 and a few days, but they did so!
@@WarThunder-zt4xw Hah, no certainly not! If they were I'd not be wearing them, they'd be behind a glass case! I don't quite remember where I got mine, I think it was either GGGodwin or Jas Townsends. They aren't the best reproductions in terms of accuracy, but they look the part well enough from a distance and to anyone who doesn't specifically study 18th C. eyewear.
2:24am in the morning ohhh no i would be on the knockout and wouldn't wake up till later that's way too early maybe for you but many Need the beauty sleep with lots of energy but very good.video love it
Cool how you play period music to psyche yourself up for the days event. And you're right, its a solemn occasion. You're lucky you get to be a reenactor. Here on Long Island, there's really no substantial reenacting groups.😭
There's zero solemnity to what they're doing. The real battle was a solemn occasion - a poorly trained and poorly equipped militia stood in the way of an empire, willing to sacrifice their lives for the liberty that they knew some of them would never see. What they're doing is a circus. They're risking nothing, they're sacrificing nothing. A puff of smoke from a replica musket is not what that - or any - battle was like. They miss the essence of the battle - in their silly games, nobody gets hurt, and they all go have a pancake breakfast and a parade afterwards. That isn't what war is like. I've been in a real war, and I can tell you unequivocally that there's no party atmosphere in combat. What they're doing is grossly disrespectful to the men who fought and died. I know it isn't intended to be disrespectful, but it is. I know that if I saw some people dressed up as Marines circa 2005, having a grand old time reenacting Fallujah, I would put a stop to it, and admonish every single participant for what he was doing. Do you think if a veteran of the battle of Lexington saw this foolishness he'd do any different?
@@kinggeorgeiii7515 They're not "educating" anyone. They're playing dress up. You wanna see what it looks like when civilians stand up to an army, go to Ukraine.
Hey brandon. I live in georgia near atlanta and i am looking for a revolutionary war british reenactment unit to join. But i cannot find one anywhere. Do you know of any east of atlanta. Or anyone else reading this comment feel free to respond. And previde me with a link to the units web site. Thanks!
I'm also colonial re-enactor in the militia line and the nearest group is in Virginia so good luck but you can start your own there as we really could use someone to Branch out for his per say it down in Georgia and there are a handful of groups out in Illinois
I can no longer refrain from saying it - take those "used" stickers off the spines of your books, sir! I always make sure to remove them from my titles as soon as they come into my possession.
Paul Revere & co. didn't sleep much that night before either. Those dirty lobsterback stinkin' tory gun-grabbers!!!! Time to drag out my old DVD of "Johnny Tremain" and sing along the "Liberty Tree" song and ring my little replica bell on which is inscribed the words from Leviticus 25:10, "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the the Inhabitants thereof." Today, I am flying my Grand Union flag, which ironically looks a lot like something the Honourable East India Company would also fly. And tonight, as I sit in my classic red leather wing back chair by the fireplace, it will be time for a little re-reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of ... [somebody the lobsterbacks don't hold real dear]." GOD SAVE WILLIAM PITT!!!! [the Elder]. Remember the Maine and to Hell with ... Frederick North & Chas. Townshend. Oh, sorry.... That doesn't rhyme so well, does it?
Aren't both Confederate and Union fighting with the Dixieland tune, given how it was Lincoln's (or so I'm told)favourite song. Gaining Southern anthem status in the Constructionist Era? For period accuracy.
There actually was a group that did it! I am going to see if I can't get involved next year...but I definitely wasn't in shape enough to do it this time around!
You seem to think that's funny. It isn't. None of this is. It's disgraceful and disrespectful. These people are putting on a circus that makes a mockery of a real event - a pivotal event in history, and one in which men lost their lives. No part of what they do shows anything even approaching solemnity or respect.
No, not a powdered wig, but all these reenactors walk around with short hair, no braids. It’s the one thing they all miss. My dad had a wig sewn into his hat in 1965, Sudbury
This is tasteless. You talk about solemnity, yet your video shows the exact opposite. This is a bunch of clowns running around pretending to shoot each other, running around putting on a circus of a "battle" before retreating indoors, alive, unshaken, and entirely unharmed, for a pancake breakfast. It's grossly disrespectful to the men who actually turned up on Lexington Common to fight - to put their lives on the line for a cause they believed in. They didn't get a pancake breakfast and a nap afterwards. They didn't have a party atmosphere. At Lexington, 77 men stood on the Common in defiance of an empire. They were poorly trained, and not particularly well armed - they knew they'd be no matched for battle-hardened British regulars and Royal Marines. But they went out there anyway, prepared to sacrifice their lives to defend their homes. This foolishness conveys none of that. This is people having fun, sacrificing nothing, requiring no courage or sense of duty, and doing it all for a laugh. April 19, 1775, was the worst day in a lot of men's lives - and for some of them, it was their last day. It was a pivotal moment in history as well. And you people turn it into a farce with your silly games. If you want to wear a good looking uniform and march around with a rifle, let me direct you here: rmi.marines.com/request-information/G_Enlist_Join_Exact?gclid=Cj0KCQjwh6XmBRDRARIsAKNInDEvUx8AyR-Lc0FfAkcIxwUu5G2TpWiaOths4vLZAzVpCVmUJU_xCIwaArJbEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds If you want to wear a less good looking uniform while marching around with a rifle but end up stationed somewhere halfway decent, there's another option for you: www.goarmy.com/info.html?iom=OP68-9021-ACNP-PS-XXX-GO-XXX-XX-XX-X-W36&&c3apidt=p27186068409&gclid=Cj0KCQjwh6XmBRDRARIsAKNInDGrMP39yVpWPfQI-wD5SA8KsQ_TeSOMPXD8XjZ6oxkFMoLC2jrCIzIaAhxtEALw_wcB&gclsrc=aw.ds If you don't pack the gear to do the real thing, don't play at it. It's disgraceful.
@@KnocKoffReviews Cool. You have nothing to say, no actual argument to make in favor of this disrespectful circus, but you can sling silly insults. By the way, I'm in my early 30s. And I've been in a real war in Iraq. You know, the kind with live bullets, not blanks. Which makes my opinion relevant.
Evan Friend I honesty cannot tell if you are serious or if you are trolling. If you are, your troll was good . if not, I bet you are real fun at parties lol.
@@KnocKoffReviews Not trolling at all. It's grossly disrespectful to make a party out of an event where people fought and died. Think of it this way - would you consider a recreation of a concentration camp okay? If not, explain how this is substantively different. War isn't fun. If you feel the need to play at war, go play paintball or something - don't disrespect the fallen. I can party like a Kennedy and have a blast doing it. But my idea of a party doesn't involve making a mockery of events that were quite the opposite of parties. And no, I don't go around demanding thanks for my service.
Loved this man! Great stuff as always!
Thank you!
Staying awake the whole night for the full effect of "Marching all night and being tired when arriving" Always fun!
Brandon owns a car?!? I legit thought Brandon just rode horses to and fro.
Farb.
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Lol nah bro he rides a carriage haha
Sir can you respectfully delay the event as my regiment in regards to ultra extreme realism prefers to travel to the event in horse and wagon it could take 3-4 days so please delay it by that amount (please also note by the time you get this we will be late as you never got this)
Hi Brandon, I'm the reenactor you met in Lexington on Saturday of that weekend, the one in the green coat at the end. On Monday Stow company at 7 a.m. called off the trail March from stow to Concord in West Concord. we were all drowned rats and both drummers were out of commission do to blisters on their feet or their drum literally becoming swamped with water. We never made it to the North bridge and the exhausted group of 45 of us call it off. But later that day and a few runs in the dryer I was marching in The Lexington Patriots day parade. Notably on Sunday the events ran smoothly at the Arlington reenactment. I will try to send footage of it to you when it becomes available.
The profile pic of the TF2 Pyro has rapidly elevated my love for this guy.
So you finally got your picture then?
@@neadickson1510 ?
What
@@neadickson1510 so who got their picture finally then I'm very confused
I am so thankful for you and all the other reenactors helping to keep history alive. What a wonderful way to spend ones time!
It's a fantastic hobby.
*A few moments later*
Oh boy, that escalated quickly.
I've always wanted a video of you going to your reenactments behind the scenes. Thanks for that!
Love the vlog style video! That's my favorite. Looks so fun! It is my dream to go to events like that, someday lol
You want to go to an "event like that"? Join the Marines. They'll send you to an "event like that". It won't be fun, but it'll make a man out of you.
What this clown is doing is making a mockery of sacrifice and horror. What actually happened on Lexington Common bears no resemblance to what this gaggle of fools is doing. Sure, the clothes look similar and the weapons look similar. And the similarities end there. Where these clowns are putting on a circus, playing at army, the men who actually showed up that morning to defy an empire stood there, grim and steady, outnumbered and outmatched. When fired upon, they returned fire - with powder and ball, and not with blanks. They were routed by overwhelming force, and some of them died.
There was no pancake breakfast afterwards. The battle continued, and the British were driven back to Boston under fire - again, real fire, those charges were sending musket balls at people with the intent to kill. And at the end of the day, orphans and widows were left in tears. Lives were ended, others were ruined. And everyone's world changed. Nobody went back the next day to their humdrum lives.
These events show zero respect for the men who fought. They're a mockery. It's disgusting and disgraceful, and everyone involved ought to be ashamed of themselves.
@@MrEvanfriend Hence the word reenactment. The goal of the reenactment is to provide a unique understanding of what went down and how it went down to the viewers. It's not like they are running around with kalashnikovs and driving in a hummer with 50 mounted up top. So no, their memory is not being insulted. If you're upset over this, I urge you to evaluate your self.
@@christopherstone4336 You miss the point entirely. If you think this foolishness provides any understanding of what happened, you are entirely naive. This is a bunch of clowns playing - aside from the clothes they wear, it bears absolutely zero resemblance to what the actual battle would have been like.
"Reenactment" is not an accurate term here. "Farce" or "satire" would be far more accurate - these clowns don't understand just how farcical they look. And what they're doing doesn't help anyone gain any understanding - it's detrimental to anyone's understanding. By focusing on the superficial aspects of a given event - the clothes the participants wore - they manage to completely dismiss the more important aspects. A battle isn't "these guys wearing these clothes stand over here and those guys dressed in those clothes stand over there, then we all point muskets at each other and shoot, but nobody gets hurt". And these silly demonstrations are just that. It gives false understanding - and by doing so, it is counterproductive to knowledge of history.
And it's also grossly disrespectful. It makes a game of a traumatic event, an event where people died. It takes war, strips it of all its meaning, of all its horrors, of all of the best and the worst that it can bring out in men, and reduces it to a party. It sees the participants as nothing more than mannequins to display the period costumes that they wear. If you're not offended by that, I suggest that you think about that. It reduces suffering to fun and men to costumes, while making a mockery of understanding and knowledge. I'd say that's rather objectively offensive.
By far my 100% favorite video on your channel!
I also usually listen to particular music before a reenactment: the whole Songs and Music of the Redcoats album.
Brandon always look forward to your blogs. I’m a War between the States reenactor. 1st Texas Co L. My go to music on the way to the event is Carry me back to Virginia by Old Crow Medicine Show.
Staying up all night, marching through the rain. You really did get the full authentic experience. Though I doubt the real troops stopped for a pancake breakfast on their way to Concord.
I imagine they'd be in much better spirits if they had.
Actually I have a colonial re-enactor who participates in a March from the stow to Concord that same day and we stop for a breakfast burrito breakfast in West Concord.
Favorite video ever on this channel
Interesting to see the practical use of your hat - turned round when it was raining to keep the rain off your face. I imagine this is just how if would have been used originally - and perhaps untied to give a wider covering.
A new format impressive its kinda like a blog
Hey Brandon, my dad was in the 10th in the late 80s-early 90s. I grew up right down the road near the Hancock - Clarke house. My pop was actually an extra in the made for TV movie April Morning. He’s battalion and up front with the yellow facings when they are marching onto the green.
Anyway, strong work as always old boy
Great video and I shall remain the comments most humble and obedient of servents
Hey Brandon... I liked your video !!!, I've always liked the recreation of historical battles, in fact I sent me to make a British Soldier costume similar to the one you used in this video, and I went to comics and manga conventions (there is a manga-anime called "Hetalia", in which the characters play each country in the world, and the character who plays U. K, wears several military costumes, among them that of the 18th-century soldier) with the It's fun! I own a big flag of the United Kingdom and use it with my cosplay. Recently I discovered your TH-cam channel, I like your content, keep going!, Greetings from VENEZUELA !!!
Looked like a hell of a lot of fun, in spite of how wet it looks. I'm sure those Continental boys were well acquainted with the rain.
It's an expensive hobby.
That's the problem. This nonsense is "fun". A real battle isn't fun - as any of these assholes playing at war would know if they had the balls to join the actual military instead of dressing up like historical soldiers. And by making a party out of a battle, they're mocking and disrespecting the men who actually fought there. The whole thing is unbelievably disgusting.
many reenactors fought in the military and also they are mocking those who fought there? Show me one revolutionary War veteran alive right now
@@FBIAGENT725 So the dead can't be mocked, is that what you're saying? And I don't believe that any of these clowns actually served, especially not in combat. One look at this foolishness would be enough to repulse pretty much any veteran I know, myself included. Nostalgia is one thing, and certainly a big thing among vets, but this nonsense? I don't doubt that these assholes get a couple vets who show up, who have some initial interest, but I imagine they all leave in disgust rather quickly.
@@MrEvanfriend the dead can be mocked but would you rather have a bunch of people who research this stuff and try their best to remake it or people forget what really happened
I really enjoyed this type of video you should do more!
Love your stuff
I live in Canada and we focus on the war of 1812
You should come to fort Erie some biggest and best event
Hey, I have a similar tradition. When I am driving to my airsoft field in my full WW2 German kit, I listen and sing along to my playlist of German marching songs. Westerwald and Das Panzerlied are my favourite so far.
Tremendous stuff Sir. You are most fortunate to engage in such activities, I get a sense of camaraderie among the other participants in-kit. I sometimes work as an extra in television and film: the experience one gets from being somewhere so early in the morning, exposed to nature's inhospitable elements for long hours, in crowds decked in particular outfits and costumes creates a feeling of bonding over mutual predicaments and discomfiture, by days end; talking as though we have known each other for years and are the best of friends, an auxiliary unit in society an identity shared - then we wrap and revert to total strangers who don't even acknowledge one another on the way out. Surreal.
Wish I could participate in such activities, it was my dream to own an 18th Century military uniform when I was 14. Have always championed and loved the period.
Glad to see you having fun mate. Cheers!
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I love your channel keep up the great stuff
Happy Patriot's Day! Did you know that the actor Steve Carell had at one time been a musician in the 10th.
I would love to see the policeman’s reaction if you get pulled over in uniform.
Yeah....I wasn't going to give you a ticket, but you're a disgusting little disrespectful chode, so you'll be getting one. Now go home, take that costume off, and do some serious thinking about how you've disrespected men who fought and died.
@@MrEvanfriend Can't tell if you're making a hypothetical remark or expressing an honest opinion.
@@staalman1226 Honesty.
@@MrEvanfriend I would just say that people's primary goal who do this is education. It might be a dramatic style of education, but first of all, accurate historical movies do much of the same thing, and also, it can be a much more effective teaching tool than sitting in a classroom. Imagine a young child going to an event like this, they see the authentic uniforms of the men in the battles, often times on the ground where they were fought, and they can hear and see the muskets and cannons firing, and see a relatively accurate depiction of how the commanders would direct their men. I believe it would only be disrespectful if they didn't pay so much attention to detail. All of the uniforms are authentically made with high quality fabrics and dyes to the exact specifications of their historical counterparts, and tailor made to fit like the real thing would. These people do what they do to give people an impression as to what one of these battles would've looked like. They often answer questions afterwards about the engagement, uniform, and life of the soldier during this period. Disrespectful would be slappimg together a half assed nylon costume and using at most a cap lock. These people spend a fair amount of time studying and practicing authentic drill, marching techniques, and commands. To call that utter compliance to detail disrespectful is strange. Finally, if you saw a video about reenactors, whom you evidently don't like, why did you even watch something that you knew you would hate?
@@staalman1226 The thing that you miss is the most important part - combat. Now, I've been in combat myself, with the United States Marines in Fallujah, Iraq. I know what it is to fight.
What you're doing isn't that. It misses all the key elements that makes combat what it is, and focuses on superficial nonsense like what the combatants were wearing.
I'm from chicopee !!! I subbed yesterday, did not know u from mass!! I'm on the border of springfield and chicopee
Yay more vlogs! It's awesome!
You volunteer with the 54th guys? I worked with them at the Nathanael Greene Homestead a couple of years ago. It was a good time. They were short people. Most guys were up at Mount Vernon in NH for the weekend. Good guys.
If you stay up all night, you might consider going to the midnight ride and such before.
I loved the few minutes later haha
That's so freakin awesome. I want to do that!
You are very dedicated, I'm impressed
I'm a militia re-enactor, this is completely normal, same day I wake up at 4 a.m. so that by 4:30 we can March off Stows lower Commons. We then proceeded to March until 9 a.m. a distance of 9 miles to reach the Battle of North bridge reenactment. Then I head to the 2 o clock Lexington Patriots day parade. He's not crazy he's normal
@@jacobqyv I understand that's normal for reenacting, I'm just commending the man for his dedication
@@jacobqyv How can you justify what you do? How can you disrespect the men who showed up at Lexington Commons to defy an empire by making a circus of their sacrifice?
On that morning, they weren't whinging about waking up early. They were standing there, armed and ready, grim and resolute, to stop the world's most powerful army. Most of them were surely terrified, yearning with every fiber of their body to be anywhere else, only staying because their fear of shame was worse than their fear of death. They surely knew that not all of them would be going home. That there would be no pancake breakfasts and parades afterwards. And that the regulars in whose way they stood would have their muskets loaded with powder and ball, and not blanks.
When you go and play at war like this, there is none of that. None of the terror, none of the steadfast courage that keeps you there in spite of the terror. You're doing it for fun. You're making a show - a circus - of it. And as a veteran of a real war, I find it absolutely disgraceful what you're doing.
Next time you put on your costume and go play at battles - play at the worst day in many men's lives and the last day in some of them - ask yourself this: if a veteran of the actual battle you're playing at saw you, what would he think? Because I know if I saw some people in costume reenacting Fallujah, I'd be incensed and I'd put a stop to it.
If you want to march in parades, that's fine. If you want to put on your costume and talk to schools and tourist groups and what have you, I have no problem with that. But these reenactments of battles are unbelievably disrespectful to the men who fought and died there. War is not fun. War is not a game. And you're reducing it to a game. You're making a party of horror and bloodshed. Your "recreations" come nowhere near recreating an actual fight - nobody gets hurt, nobody is in any real danger, there's none of the fear, none of the small acts of valor or cowardice, none of the stench of death and blood, none of the screams of wounded and dying men. You ignore the essence of what war is, and focus on the costumes and equipment. And I must say, it shocks the conscience.
Give what you're doing some serious thought. Whatever your intentions may be, you're mocking heroes who fought and died so that our nation might be free.
@@MrEvanfriend I'm not disrespecting them. I just reenact a different group of militia
@@jacobqyv You don't intend to disrespect them. But this nonsense where you go around sloppily shooting blanks at each other in mock "battles" that are supposed to represent actual battles is disrespectful in and of itself.
If you want to march in parades, or talk to school groups, or do the whole Colonial Williamsburg thing, I have no problem with that. It's this mocking of battles in the name of "reenactment" that comes nowhere close to the essence of these battles that I find grossly disrespectful.
Civillians: Oh boy, this food is delicious!
Reenactors: *helo*
Excellent stream last night
I love these behidn the scenes vlogs, keep it up :)
i used to reenact too as a continetal drummer
Would you be able to do a video on your reenactment kit and where you have gotten it? (For the American Revolution and Russia WW2)
Nice video and soldiers huzzah:)
These assholes aren't soldiers. And nobody who has ever been in or around the military would mistake them for soldiers. These are clowns, dressing up in costumes and putting on a circus. They tell themselves that by dressing up in costumes, they're "reenacting" a battle, but what they're really doing is performing some pathetic and disrespectful satire of a battle, and mocking the participants. These assholes like to nitpick over how "this button on your fuckin pants isn't 100% historically accurate", then, without any notion of irony whatsoever, assemble into their "units" comprised largely of middle-aged fat men and entirely of people with zero military bearing, then gagglefuck and diddy bop - not march - their way to a "battle" where they shoot blanks at each other - again, without any semblance of military bearing, without looking even remotely like they're under fire, without any struggle whatsoever - and then when they're done, they all go and party together.
The whole thing is rather disgusting, when you think about it.
Looks like fun
So, the might of the British empire could not disarm the people of Massachusetts, but today their own government is completing the job.
Steel wool ( 3 or 4 OO) the rust and it becomes a lovely brown patina I suppose that is what happened to the brown Bess over the years anyway. . All of the flintlocks I see at my gun club, mine included are browned not blued. Browning is controlled rust. done right it gives a beautiful plum brown color . I am building a .62 smooth bore fowler and it will be browned also.
Good Luck from Germany, Sir! ;-)
Also Titanic Day! :D
Imagine a blackout happened, and some ramdom guy approaches you, which happened to be dressed as redcoats armed with muskets... yeaa. I'd run.
Love your videos man! How much does the uniform and gear cost? I would love doing this..
Honestly it varies massively from group to group and impression to impression. A Hessian officer kit will be far more expensive than an American militiaman. Some groups have loaner kit, others require you to buy it all right at the start. I'd recommend having around 2500 dollars set aside for it no matter what, though speak with as many groups as you can before you commit anywhere.
Brandon F. Thanks for quick response. I am definitely going to start looking into it and begin talking with some groups. And by the way I loved your video with those idiots talking about 17th century line warfare lol. There is a video that they call the Zulu “African Americans” 🤦♂️..
@@zackhartley4718 I have to agree with Brandon prices do vary, I know the full set from the king's own regiment 4th foots set up costs roughly 1200 bucks that excludes the musket but the uniform is custom-tailored to yourself. Custom hand stitching one per se for a militiamen is far less expensive but far more time consuming.
Big fan. Take care
May I be first to say chad?
The brits are back!!!! Oh yes
Dude i listen to battle cry of freedom before my reenactments.
hell on the wabash is prob my favorite historical tune. Thanks though to Gettysburg (film), I'll never be able to disassociate it from the Iron Brigade.
"0410 and running on zero sleep" Is there any other way when reenacting?
By moving at zero dark thirty to your objective by sunrise, you are getting a closer taste of true military history. Now imagine marching all night before the fight, as that's what has been done, and is still being done, and will always be done. It's a hard life being a soldier, followed by trauma, injury, and death.
wait your from Massachusetts? wow
Obligatory “I am in this video” in the background at approximately 5:54
Why did you not sleep? Wouldn't that just make you more tired?
Those drummers were a cut above most.
What was the point of not sleeping?
HUZZA!!!
American Revolution Reenactors exactly
When did you switch from RWFiA to the 54th? And why? Just curious
Brandon, how did you manage to get prescription for period eyeglasses? I ask mainly as I would need to do the same when I start the hobby.
I just brought the frames in to my doctor and asked if they could put my prescription in them- I think it was around $80 and a few days, but they did so!
@@BrandonF well how about that! May I ask where you got the frames from? Don't tell me they're vintage?
@@WarThunder-zt4xw Hah, no certainly not! If they were I'd not be wearing them, they'd be behind a glass case! I don't quite remember where I got mine, I think it was either GGGodwin or Jas Townsends. They aren't the best reproductions in terms of accuracy, but they look the part well enough from a distance and to anyone who doesn't specifically study 18th C. eyewear.
@@BrandonF thank you Brandon. I think they look great!
way you goo!!!
thx for vid
Try CLP to help keep it from rusting up
I wish I could be a reenactor
2:24am in the morning ohhh no i would be on the knockout and wouldn't wake up till later that's way too early maybe for you but many Need the beauty sleep with lots of energy but very good.video love it
what is the painting in the background of the start of the video?
Those glasses though....
No, no, no, NOOOOOO
As historically accurate as you can get with modern glasses.
They look so weird though@@SonsOfLorgar
Can you subscribe to Micahistory 2 please?
Dang nice car
Cool how you play period music to psyche yourself up for the days event. And you're right, its a solemn occasion. You're lucky you get to be a reenactor. Here on Long Island, there's really no substantial reenacting groups.😭
There's zero solemnity to what they're doing. The real battle was a solemn occasion - a poorly trained and poorly equipped militia stood in the way of an empire, willing to sacrifice their lives for the liberty that they knew some of them would never see.
What they're doing is a circus. They're risking nothing, they're sacrificing nothing. A puff of smoke from a replica musket is not what that - or any - battle was like. They miss the essence of the battle - in their silly games, nobody gets hurt, and they all go have a pancake breakfast and a parade afterwards. That isn't what war is like. I've been in a real war, and I can tell you unequivocally that there's no party atmosphere in combat.
What they're doing is grossly disrespectful to the men who fought and died. I know it isn't intended to be disrespectful, but it is. I know that if I saw some people dressed up as Marines circa 2005, having a grand old time reenacting Fallujah, I would put a stop to it, and admonish every single participant for what he was doing. Do you think if a veteran of the battle of Lexington saw this foolishness he'd do any different?
@@kinggeorgeiii7515 They're not "educating" anyone. They're playing dress up. You wanna see what it looks like when civilians stand up to an army, go to Ukraine.
Is the car he used to get there Hystorical?
Probably not
@@jacobqyv maybe it is a 1779 Chevrolet.
hi again
Hello!
@@BrandonF wanna play fortnite?
5:33 disgraceful that guy gives me chills reminds me of being at school
Torq He is a captain for the battalion company in the 10th. He is a character :)
Hey brandon. I live in georgia near atlanta and i am looking for a revolutionary war british reenactment unit to join. But i cannot find one anywhere. Do you know of any east of atlanta. Or anyone else reading this comment feel free to respond. And previde me with a link to the units web site. Thanks!
I'm also colonial re-enactor in the militia line and the nearest group is in Virginia so good luck but you can start your own there as we really could use someone to Branch out for his per say it down in Georgia and there are a handful of groups out in Illinois
jeffq multie but was georgia not involved in the war? It would make sense for them to have some units to portray the war in georgia
They were but not a lot happened there
You were just trying to be more accurate in your reenactment. If I recall, the British didn't get much sleep the night before either.
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I love God and Jesus.
But what if a nine month pregnant Anne Frank had teleported onto the Lexington Green on the early morning hours of April 19th, 1775?
360Nomad then she would’ve been followed in time by a certain happy artist.
With 10th 4th 1st foot guards 5th 16th light dragoon 🇬🇧
I can no longer refrain from saying it - take those "used" stickers off the spines of your books, sir! I always make sure to remove them from my titles as soon as they come into my possession.
I really should...
@@BrandonF Oh, it's all in jest!
But a good point all the same!
:)
Paul Revere & co. didn't sleep much that night before either. Those dirty lobsterback stinkin' tory gun-grabbers!!!! Time to drag out my old DVD of "Johnny Tremain" and sing along the "Liberty Tree" song and ring my little replica bell on which is inscribed the words from Leviticus 25:10, "Proclaim Liberty throughout all the Land unto all the the Inhabitants thereof." Today, I am flying my Grand Union flag, which ironically looks a lot like something the Honourable East India Company would also fly. And tonight, as I sit in my classic red leather wing back chair by the fireplace, it will be time for a little re-reading of Henry Wadsworth Longfellow: "Listen, my children, and you shall hear / Of the midnight ride of ... [somebody the lobsterbacks don't hold real dear]." GOD SAVE WILLIAM PITT!!!! [the Elder]. Remember the Maine and to Hell with ... Frederick North & Chas. Townshend. Oh, sorry.... That doesn't rhyme so well, does it?
For me it's Dixie Land and We'll fight for Uncle Sam. Depending on if I'm Confederate or Union
Aren't both Confederate and Union fighting with the Dixieland tune, given how it was Lincoln's (or so I'm told)favourite song. Gaining Southern anthem status in the Constructionist Era? For period accuracy.
You should have filmed the elevator
Is that historically accurate
Too bad you can't reenact the whole march from Boston.
There actually was a group that did it! I am going to see if I can't get involved next year...but I definitely wasn't in shape enough to do it this time around!
Brandon's point I know the two guys who did it they're crazy
@@BrandonF the 2 guys are crazy and amazing
zero dark thirty
5:20 MURDERER MURDERER
You seem to think that's funny. It isn't. None of this is. It's disgraceful and disrespectful. These people are putting on a circus that makes a mockery of a real event - a pivotal event in history, and one in which men lost their lives. No part of what they do shows anything even approaching solemnity or respect.
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Cute redcoats
Teaaboo
You should really sleep before these events
you mean traitors day?
The redcoats try every year, someday they're gonna make it! xD
Yes.
Why don’t you wear a wig?
No, not a powdered wig, but all these reenactors walk around with short hair, no braids. It’s the one thing they all miss. My dad had a wig sewn into his hat in 1965, Sudbury
So you just like to dress up? :P
It comes with the Hobbie you love to dress up in the end from experience
Experiencing what
@@coldfront1494 everything
jeffq multie, I still don’t know why there playing outside, or what kind or group thing their doing
Why I am watching a bunch of virgins running around in coats wtf😂
I wonder if he hates America
Worse than airsoft.
This is tasteless. You talk about solemnity, yet your video shows the exact opposite. This is a bunch of clowns running around pretending to shoot each other, running around putting on a circus of a "battle" before retreating indoors, alive, unshaken, and entirely unharmed, for a pancake breakfast. It's grossly disrespectful to the men who actually turned up on Lexington Common to fight - to put their lives on the line for a cause they believed in. They didn't get a pancake breakfast and a nap afterwards. They didn't have a party atmosphere.
At Lexington, 77 men stood on the Common in defiance of an empire. They were poorly trained, and not particularly well armed - they knew they'd be no matched for battle-hardened British regulars and Royal Marines. But they went out there anyway, prepared to sacrifice their lives to defend their homes. This foolishness conveys none of that. This is people having fun, sacrificing nothing, requiring no courage or sense of duty, and doing it all for a laugh. April 19, 1775, was the worst day in a lot of men's lives - and for some of them, it was their last day. It was a pivotal moment in history as well. And you people turn it into a farce with your silly games.
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If you don't pack the gear to do the real thing, don't play at it. It's disgraceful.
Evan Friend Go somewhere else boomer. No one asked you for your opinion.
@@KnocKoffReviews Cool. You have nothing to say, no actual argument to make in favor of this disrespectful circus, but you can sling silly insults.
By the way, I'm in my early 30s. And I've been in a real war in Iraq. You know, the kind with live bullets, not blanks. Which makes my opinion relevant.
Evan Friend I honesty cannot tell if you are serious or if you are trolling. If you are, your troll was good . if not, I bet you are real fun at parties lol.
Evan Friend I bet you tell people to thank you for your service.
@@KnocKoffReviews Not trolling at all. It's grossly disrespectful to make a party out of an event where people fought and died.
Think of it this way - would you consider a recreation of a concentration camp okay? If not, explain how this is substantively different. War isn't fun. If you feel the need to play at war, go play paintball or something - don't disrespect the fallen.
I can party like a Kennedy and have a blast doing it. But my idea of a party doesn't involve making a mockery of events that were quite the opposite of parties.
And no, I don't go around demanding thanks for my service.