The photo page for last weekend’s Under the Redcoat event at Colonial Williamsburg is published within the gallery. An additional link is available on the right side of this page. For those of you that closely follow the pictures, you might notice that not nearly as many involve someone spread out on the [...]

An update to our previous post, the Jerusalem Mills event webpage has been updated to announce the cancellation. No real additional information available at this time, but it does provide confirmation that the event planners are attempting to reschedule for later in the year.

Breaking news! The event scheduled for May 16-17 at Jerusalem Mills has been cancelled due to the excessive rain over the last couple of weeks. Reports from the site are telling us that the parking areas, the rebel camping area, and part of the Crown Forces camp are literally under water, with no [...]

The photo gallery has been updated to include photos from the event at Mount Vernon on April 25 and 26. Also, the April/May edition of The Gazette has been published and is now available on-line.
Hope our readers enjoy both, and if you would like to leave any comments, feel free to use this post.

Tomorrow’s event at the Carlyle House in Old Town Alexandria has been cancelled due to the forecast of rain. Unfortunately, the site is not well equipped to handle an in-door set up, so 4th Coy and the organizers of the event at Carlyle House mutually agreed that the best course of action is to [...]

This past weekend, Ford Motor Company was at Mount Vernon for the start of their attempt to drive a Ford Fusion hybrid for a thousand miles on a single tank of gas. Apparently, the plan was to start at Mount Vernon and drive up and down the George Washington Parkway, day and night, until [...]

Additional photos from Day 2 of Mount Vernon are now available on the Coy’s flickr site. The day was essentially a repeat of the first day, only with more heat and a bit fewer tourists…probably a cause and effect relationship. But the landing went even smoother than the first day, with the Navy [...]

The first pictures from Day 1 of Mount Vernon are now available on the Coy’s flickr site. There are some great shots at the mansion and the company on the water in the skiffs. The photo gallery on our webpage will be updated in the next couple of days.
There were a ton of [...]

War returned to Virginia in the spring of 1781. An expeditionary force under Gen. Benedict Arnold occupied the city of Portsmouth at the confluence of the James River and the Chesapeake Bay in January. Richmond was taken with almost no organized opposition and later burned, the Westham cannon foundry was destroyed and the Virginia militia [...]

There are a couple of events in the Washington, DC area in the next few weeks, as well as a few others closer to folks in the Boston.
18 April is the annual reenactment of Battle Road outside of Boston. This event commemorates the battles of Lexington and Concord, including the “shot heard round the [...]