Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

<b><font size="3"><center>Redcoats to Re-occupy the Old Barracks</center></font id="size3"></b>

April 2 & 3, 2005 - [url="www.rwfia.com"]The Royal Welch Fusiliers in America[/url]will occupy
the [url="www.barracks.org"]Old Barracks Museum[/url]the weekend of April 2nd and 3rd. One of the
oldest and largest re-enactment groups to portray the British
soldier of the American Revolution, the Royal Welch Fusiliers depict
probably the most famous British regiment in America at that time.
Known as the 23rd Regiment of Foot and given the distinction
of "Fusiliers" by Marlborough in the very early 18th Century, they
fought in most of the famous battles of the Revolution from
Lexington/Concord and Bunker Hill, through the Philadelphia Campaign
and Monmouth, and surrendered at Yorktown.

An exciting addition to the weekend on Sunday will be the presence
of Don Hagist, editor and annotator of the new book, "A British
Soldier's Story: Roger Lamb's Narrative of the American Revolution".
Mr. Hagist will give illustrated talks Sunday afternoon about the
common British Soldier in America and sign copies of his book which
will be available from the Old Barracks' Museum Shop. Roger Lamb was
a surgeon's mate and colour sergeant serving first in the 9th Foot,
with whom he was captured at Saratoga in 1777, escaped his captivity
in Virginia and made his way to New York City. There he enlisted in
the 23rd Royal Welch Fusiliers. As luck would have it, he would then
be again captured, this time at Yorktown in 1781! Historians have
called Lamb's narrative one of the best accounts by an enlisted man
of virtually any war.

See website for more details:
http://www.barracks.org/thingsdo/things2.html#RWF

[url="mailto:mtdavies@msn.com"]Grenadier Mike Davies[/url]
[url="www.rwfia.com"]Recreated 23rd Regiment of Foot, RWFA[/url]