A DAY With BRITISH Revolutionary War Reenactors

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  • čas přidán 7. 08. 2024
  • Every year, Mount Vernon hosts the continental army and the army of his Majesty King George III for a weekend. This year, our digital storyteller spent the weekend in the British encampment, joining them for a thrilling skirmish, and spending the night on the grounds.
    Watch our series with the Continental army from May 2017: Part 1: • Revolutionary War Reen...
    Part 2: • Revolutionary War Reen...
    Join us for Rev War weekend next year: www.mountvernon.org/plan-your...
    Hardtack recipe from "The American Table":
    www.americantable.org/2013/06/...

Komentáře • 80

  • @mountvernon
    @mountvernon  Před 6 lety +23

    Do you reenact? If so, as who and what time period?

    • @MeadowBear99
      @MeadowBear99 Před 5 lety +4

      Coldstream Guards 1815

    • @1812AndMore
      @1812AndMore Před 5 lety +2

      Incorporated Militia of Upper Canada 1812

    • @americanrevolutionreenacto2357
      @americanrevolutionreenacto2357 Před 5 lety +4

      2nd Massachusetts, Yarmouth Minutemen, 74th Highlanders-revolutionary war

    • @sykeraid4944
      @sykeraid4944 Před 5 lety +2

      Eastern Woodland Native, 18th century (Mostly French & Indian War)
      Also Royal Navy, American War of Independence

    • @Flintlock_and_Tomahawk
      @Flintlock_and_Tomahawk Před 5 lety +1

      George Washington's Mount Vernon rev war British soldier

  • @americanrevolutionreenacto2357

    To make a hardtack have more flavor you can dip it in wine, beer or whiskey and it tastes excellent

    • @Ugnaught82
      @Ugnaught82 Před 6 lety +5

      Fry it in bacon grease.... mmmmm tasty!

    • @yourboybingo9143
      @yourboybingo9143 Před 5 lety +2

      American Revolution Reenactors you watch this channel too?

    • @americanrevolutionreenacto2357
      @americanrevolutionreenacto2357 Před 5 lety +1

      Bingo the doggo yep

    • @edwardpate6128
      @edwardpate6128 Před 5 lety +2

      @@Ugnaught82 In the Civil War they would use their cornmeal and mix it with bacon grease and then take the dough and cook it over the fire with their ramrods over their campfire and called it Sloosh. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sloosh

    • @therainbowgulag.
      @therainbowgulag. Před 3 lety

      It's generally meant to mixed into a porridge type dish otherwise you'd have no teath soon.

  • @CharlotteFairchild
    @CharlotteFairchild Před 6 lety +35

    You guys are not hungry. If you were hungry, hard tack would be delicious.

    • @SonsOfLorgar
      @SonsOfLorgar Před 3 lety +1

      Also, hard tack is a lot better eating when reconstituted by dipping it in gravy or dissolved in broth with the meat ration and/or foraged mushrooms and vegetables to make a stew.

  • @MirahCarter
    @MirahCarter Před 6 lety +16

    Thanks for the video. What an experience to just be in something like that. America, bless God.

  • @ziggymorris8760
    @ziggymorris8760 Před 4 lety +11

    They had such nice uniforms

  • @ariochiv
    @ariochiv Před 3 lety +3

    I think it's great that everyone pitches a tent and bivouacs as if they were real soldiers, instead of hopping out of an SUV and stepping into line.

  • @americanrevolutionreenacto2357

    Nice video

  • @CommanderBow934
    @CommanderBow934 Před 5 lety +6

    For King And Country.

  • @yourboybingo9143
    @yourboybingo9143 Před 6 lety +9

    AWESOME

  • @fantasticcheddar6973
    @fantasticcheddar6973 Před 5 lety +13

    3:35 Go get em' 42nd Blackwatch Foot Scots! GO GET EM!

  • @dougwatt6303
    @dougwatt6303 Před 2 lety +1

    Looks like fun! Thanks for sharing!

  • @NHPsychoticGoat
    @NHPsychoticGoat Před 5 lety +16

    Tip to all reenactors.....Dont wear modern items when reenacting, like plastic rimmed glasses, modern wedding bands, earrings....it really takes away from the living history reenacting. Remember ur not only their to have a good time, your teaching people as well.

    • @Joseywales414
      @Joseywales414 Před 3 lety

      Stop doing fist bumps while retreating, looks so tacky,,, such a modern 2020 thing

  • @ariadne3838
    @ariadne3838 Před 6 lety +10

    Really good!

  • @ariochiv
    @ariochiv Před 3 lety +2

    I don't think anyone actually ate hardtack dry unless they were starving.

  • @wintersheritagehouse4277
    @wintersheritagehouse4277 Před 4 lety +3

    Amazing!!

  • @dinojoe1788
    @dinojoe1788 Před 3 lety +1

    *Doesn't soften hardtac*
    *Bites hardtac like a brownie*
    "I THINK I JUST CRACKED MY TOOTH"

  • @Punktastic13
    @Punktastic13 Před 6 lety +6

    Hardtack AMSR!

  • @dayofthesiege3892
    @dayofthesiege3892 Před 6 lety +3

    Great video i liked!

  • @CharlotteFairchild
    @CharlotteFairchild Před 6 lety +5

    What happened with the Loyalists who moved to Canada? Were they given British uniforms or did they look like the Patriots? Peter Fairchild, his father and many of his relatives moved to Boston and Brant, Canada after their mills and houses were destroyed after the war by the Patriots. Peter started a church in Canada. in 1790 he had 5 children in New York before moving to Canada when things got too difficult.

    • @CharlotteFairchild
      @CharlotteFairchild Před 6 lety +2

      Peter's son Israel moved to Cherry Creek, NY and was an abolitionist. He had 9 children.

    • @oliver8928
      @oliver8928 Před 5 lety +5

      There were over 15 regular loyalist Regiments raised throughout the war (Who received standard British uniforms and arms, the coats being Green with white facings early in the war before being replaced by Red coats with Yellow, Black, Green and Blue facings respectively) as well as countless loyalist militia Regiments who wore their everyday outdoor clothing, similar to the Rebel Militias. All apart from certain light and rifle companies were armed with the Land Pattern (Bess) Musket or Pattern 1776 Infantry Rifle. All in all this constituted around 25,000 troops throughout the war, the majority of which settled in the new province of New Brunswick and were often granted land there fore their service.

  • @Davis5fam
    @Davis5fam Před 6 lety +9

    Thank God these two weren't fighting the British back in the day!
    #thehardtackiscomingthehardtackiscoming

  • @dariogodinezalatorre8280
    @dariogodinezalatorre8280 Před 6 lety +3

    How many years can u John the army

  • @chrisryan3770
    @chrisryan3770 Před 4 lety +10

    There’s not, nor was there ever, a Royal Army or “His/Her Majesty’s Army. There are Royal Regiments in the British Army but these, as with most regiments, were formed by regional land owners or dignitaries. The Royal title is an honorific title gifted after service exploits. Because it is made up of regiments and corps which were independently raised and paid for it has always been known as the British Army.

    • @stevenpremmel4116
      @stevenpremmel4116 Před 4 lety +3

      I was thinking about this. We both know this is the case, but would the colonists have made that distinction?

    • @JohnsonTheSecond
      @JohnsonTheSecond Před 4 lety +5

      Royal Airforce
      Royal Navy
      Royal Marines
      British Army

  • @leithafae
    @leithafae Před 4 lety +1

    didnt anyone tell you, it needs water or at least softening before you eat hard tac. goes well in stew lol. how many teeth are left

  • @AlbertWesker-vm1pp
    @AlbertWesker-vm1pp Před 2 lety

    Hardtack is hard, I had it and damn it was hard

  • @dayofthesiege3892
    @dayofthesiege3892 Před 6 lety +7

    Are you American or British ?, because I'm British🇬🇧

  • @Bountyhopper
    @Bountyhopper Před 3 lety

    0:00 he has a light infantry cap but... he doesn’t have a light infantry uniform. Nor does he have a proper cartridge box, bayonet, neck stock, or garters

  • @Lindarianmusic
    @Lindarianmusic Před rokem

    I love the reenactment humor, Americans🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣I portray one of the first female colonial patriots known as Martha Cochran Corbin an embodiment of Molly Pitcher. Hopefully the hard tack was a softer version of the original, otherwise they will know what a tooth breaker is and hopefully, it isn't weevil flavored. Oh, ouch I normally make my ships biscuits softer, so I won't break my teeth on it and usually, I dunk mine in my coffee and it tastes really good that way. Mount Vernon does a great job, recruiting historically accurate living historians for this event.

  • @yellowplate4539
    @yellowplate4539 Před 5 lety +1

    why are the americans and british fighting so close to each other

    • @mikeyunovapix7181
      @mikeyunovapix7181 Před 4 lety +4

      thats pretty much how wars were fought at the time. their guns were single shot such as muskets and sometimes muzzleloading rifles. the muskets were horribly inaccurate due to a smooth bore. So the optimal way for a large army to fight a war at the time was to form a line and fire a volley at the enemy. it began to change when breech-loading guns and self contained ammunition started to enter the battlefield less than 100 years later.

  • @browe6135
    @browe6135 Před 5 lety

    dude the biskets are made out of betles and other bugs

  • @alfredfreedomjones5105
    @alfredfreedomjones5105 Před 6 lety +7

    God Bless America! 🗽🇺🇸

  • @MotoBugalter
    @MotoBugalter Před 3 lety +2

    Lord have mercy...redcoats
    again...

  • @Joseywales414
    @Joseywales414 Před 3 lety

    Where’s the Blood ?

  • @MrMitchconstantine
    @MrMitchconstantine Před 3 lety

    What is period appropriate abuse I can yell at redcoats?

  • @oussamahabibtips3531
    @oussamahabibtips3531 Před 5 lety

    The us peapel is english

  • @mrkrabbscoochiesponge2686

    WHY IS THERE A GUY WITH JEANS AND LONG SLEAVE SHIRT PTUTING UJP THE TENTE I CANT BELEIVE I8TB IT RUJINGED THE XCSNEN

  • @cookietrouble4637
    @cookietrouble4637 Před 4 lety +2

    Americans... 😅

  • @sir.stupidity6751
    @sir.stupidity6751 Před 3 lety

    The worst way to die is in a kilt