I'm feeling well-fed and happy over here in my family's old homestead in Holidayland, short only on cares it seems (except for the spectacular but heartbreaking game yesterday played by the Canadian and American women's Olympic football teams). Everybody has a NYW-SYW-FIW Vauban fortification in their neighbourhood, or should have one. I just packed up the family and re-visited ours, Fort Anne, at Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia. European settlement on the site dates back to the opening years of the 17th century and the colony of Acadia founded by Samuel de Champlain. Scots settlers then built a fort on the site, named after Charles I (the Stuart Charles I that is), followed by the French who built one expedient fortification after another. A formal earthwork star fort was built in 1702 by an engineer trained by Vauban himself. The fort then changed hands (along with the colony) several times before ending up permanently in the hands of the British. The fort was parti
News, plans and plots regarding my 18th century Imagi-Nations campaign set in the fictitious nations of Syldavia and Borduria, my variations on a theme of Hergé