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   Fun Fact: Amherst took Louisbourg as the first prong of the British assault. The second prong of Pitt's vision for the conquest of Canada was led by Major General James Abercromby. At 52 years of age with many years of military experience, Abercromby was a methodical plodder who had never had an independent command. Montcalm himself went to Carillon as the British massed their forces near Albany for the strike north.  George Augustus, viscount Howe, was appointed as Abercromby's second-in-command. His brother Richard was Admiral Howe, and his brother William Howe would lead the British Army in America 20 years in the future. Lord Howe was the idol of the army, being everything Abercromby was not. Also figuring prominently among the soldiery was Robert Rogers, commissioned as Major of the Rangers in His Majesty's service. Howe impressed the rangers' style upon the other units of Abercromby's command--including cutting the brims from their hats and cutting their co...

  The picture is of the new terrain/beasts Les Freres Corses have established as the next level of their game. Perhaps some additional information is in order. The pale blue strip with the black things in it is a river full of black leeches. It's in the bottom of a canyon (as represented by the brownish sides. The green in the upper left hand corner is the fertile ground where one glitch (a new creature represented by a miniature from the Army of the Dead from LotR), a few goblins, and a transparent with some young reside. Most of the action happens in the pink zone, which also has a glitch, dingos (represented by warg figures), goblins, 2 trolls, longrads (represented by the pens), and two dragons (smaller dinosaur figures with duct tape for wings--and not to be confused with the enormous T-Rex figure partially visible on the right). The T-Rex is an NPC recruited by one of the freres from 2 levels back. During the most recent turn, T-Rex was slain by that dragon among the longrad...

   Fun Fact: 1757 had not been a good year for British arms in North America. William Pitt, convinced that Canada could be taken, devised a three-pronged assault for implementing his strategy of attacking Canada from all sides.  First he would take another stab at Louisbourg. Second, a strike north from Fort Edward to Forts Carillon (Ticonderoga) and Frederic would open the way from Lake Champlain through the Richelieu River to Montreal.The third prong would drive to Fort Duquesne and up to Fort Niagra to cut Canada's connection with the Louisiana. France's victories in Canada concealed a fatal secret: Canada was starving. Provisions from France were required to feed the colony, and the Royal Navy had the mouth of the St. Lawrence nearly corked. Pitt dispatched William Amherst as Commander-in-Chief to realize his vision of conquering Canada with the attack on Louisbourg. Louisbourg was a fortified town with stone walls, glacis, earthen ramparts for artillery and soldiers,...

 Fun Fact: With things going poorly for the British, Newcastle resigned his position at the head of the government. When William Pitt took over, he declared that North America should be defended by land and sea as a critical component of the British Empire. He asked for 8,000 men and a fleet to give form to his words, and he began a program of construction to bring the British Navy up to 400 ships. He and George II had never been besties, and after Pitt objected to Admiral Bying's execution, the king informed Pitt that he would accept his resignation. Necessity soon forced a compromise whereby Pitt would run the war, and Newcastle would carry on the the internal affairs of government. Lord Loudoun, who was now in command in America, agreed with the opinion that the way to win the war was to seize Quebec. Advancing by sea, a conservative step toward that goal would be to take Louisbourg, and Pitt ordered him to do just that. When Loudoun pulled troops from New York to mount an attac...

 Interview with Belart Wright Author of The Hell's Glitch Series Please tell me a little about your current work in progress. I have quite a few.   Mainly, I’m working on several LitRPG and Gamelit titles currently.   The main series is the Hell’s Glitch Series which will have a lot of life to it over the next few years.   Then there’s the Psy-Hunters sequel which will be there to scratch my Sci-Fi itch as I’m writing the dark world of Hell’s Glitch.   Other than that, I’m working on some one-shot Gamelit projects including one based on a beat ‘em up as well as a visual novel with light RPG gameplay mechanics. Where did you get the idea for this book or series? I watched Sword Art Online and a few key moments such as the raid boss battles reminded me of the first Dark Souls game. Do you write in more than one genre? Yes.   Typically its dark fantasy, urban fantasy, sci-fi, action & adventure, grimdark, horror, gamelit, and litrpg. Tell...