Leatherstocking - The Palatinate John Adam Hartmann

[Koppi]

Today I will tell you a little story. Was Hawkeye really a guy from the Palatinate, and did he fought at Oriskany??
We will see.
Have fun with the report and the pictures.
Report in German and English.

https://thrifles.blogspot.com/2018/08/der-lederstrumpf-aus-der-pfalz-johann.html

[Belisarius]

Very interesting Koppi , I enjoyed reading this. The FIWar is a favourite of mine ( see my recent post Widerness War ) . The Mohawk valley was settled by a mix of German and Irish emigrants , I believe, so a few French marines and Huron would,nt have bothered them much . Danke mien Herr . 😎

[zippyfusenet]

Thanks for that Koppi, it's an interesting story. I'd not heard of Hartmann. If he arrived in North America in 1764, then he was just a bit late for the French & Indian War.

So many Palatines settled in Tryon County New York that there was a Palatine District. In Allan D. Foote's book Liberty March, The Battle of Oriskany, I find John Adam Hartmann, from Fort Herkimer in the German Flatts district, listed as a private in the 4th Battalion, Kingsland and German Flatts District, of the Tryon County Militia. Hartmann survived the battle unwounded.

https://www.amazon.com/Liberty-March-Oriskany-Allan-Foote/dp/0925168726

Oriskany has been given boardgame treatment at least twice. Liberty March, also by Allan D Foote, had a limited publication nearly 20 years ago. A friend gave me a copy of the rules, but I don't have the board or counters. Maybe I'll find a complete copy some day:

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/38265/liberty-march

More recently, GMT's Newtown also includes an Oriskany game. I own it but haven't cut my copy yet.

https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/114530/newtown

Oriskany is, in my opinion, too big a battle to model using most flintlock era skirmish rules, but I've successfully staged it in 25mm using the rules Our Moccasins Trickled Blood, which are designed to handle multiple players gaming a big frontier battle. I'm thinking about springing it on a new set of players down in Jim's Basement...

https://www.wargamevault.com/product/98833/Our-Moccasins-Trickled-Blood?term=our+moccasins&test_epoch=0

[Belisarius]

British Grenadier rules also cover Orsikany  in their 1st scenario book . It seems to fall into that most difficult of categories ,  the Ambush game . The terrain could also prove problematic as the path to Fort Stanwix ran along a steep sided ridge with cliffs on one side and the land falling sharply  away on the other down to the Mohawk River .  I,m always interested to read any contributions from  Zippyfuse as it’s great to broaden our knowledge on the FIW and AWI periods .  I,m a big fan of GMT games one of my favourites is Liberty or Death .