How will this Battle Road event be different from other reenactments (for men and women who are new to Battle Road)?
Battle Road is very different from typical reenactments. It follows the original timeline of the day and starts before dawn, jumps from site to site across [how many?] miles, and runs through late afternoon. No other reenactment skips between so many sites, so widely separated, in such a populous area, in a single day. For this 225th anniversary of the orginal battle, the reenactment has been expanded into a weekend-long event. The main reenactments — the “Battle Road” proper — will take place on Saturday, and the rest of the weekend will be a relatively standard reenactment with an encampment (set during the Siege of Boston, which lasted from the end of Battle Road through March, 1776), drills and military exercises, sutlers, historical programs, and so forth. Everyone will be bused from site to site (except that the British Regulars will march between some sites) (but only if you are counted on your unit’s return — campfollowers and children included). Provincials will “leapfrog”
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