Indulging Myself

Sometimes things just come together and either one seizes the moment or one lets it go by. 

Well, there I was, pondering my plans for this year, and of the passing of Rene Chartrand who I had the good fortune of meeting several times when I was a young officer cadet and cadet curator of the Musee de Fort St, Jean and also a member of the Montreal Wargame Club who were meeting at the old fort on Ile St Helene in Montreal  where Rene was curator amongst other things and would show us stuff. 

In addition, I had decided to focus more on 18thC campaigns in Canada, esp on Louisburg and Acadia. Then a Helion book sale flyer landed in my inbox and it included a two volume set with "Frontier Soldiers in New France" with Rene being a co-author. They also had a book on Grey's 1794 West Indies campaign, the only other book I had found on this subject had been in a university library some 30+ years ago.  Well, that was relevant to my current miniatures interest.  

Once looking, I stumbled across a new printing of a fairly rare 26 year old book on the 1745 siege of Louisburg, available from a "local" bookstore (about 120km but in Nova Scotia) . Well that was just the period I've been setting my games in, and Louisburg is a site that I've visited several times, so.........

Anyway, having just completed my first 7 decades, I decided to treat myself to help me stay on track over the next 2 decades.