Revolutionary War Surgeon

01/02/2026

Check this video out !!!!
It’s excellent !!!

250 years ago December 31, 1775, General Richard Montgomery was killed in a daring attack on Quebec City. The shocking moment when the American invasion of Canada faltered was later immortalized by John Trumbull in an epic history painting intended to mythologize the American Revolution. But does that image represent what the scene would have really looked like? Join Dr Matthew Keagle to peel away the layers of time to get closer to the truth of the fateful evening.

Watch now on YouTube!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGlcDH35AXM

09/12/2024

This will be this weekend Sept. 14 and15 at Kirkwood park called
"Greentree Festival" ...............

09/12/2024

NOTICE TO ALL:
Setting up at Greentree Festival this weekend in the Kirkwood commons. My assistant and I will be there to showcase our medical knowledge and tools in the Medical and Dental arts of the 18th Century. We have been informed that the English are moving into the Ohio country forcing the people there to eat there homestead animals.
Due to these hostilities and the English incursion into Ohio territory my assistant and will be heading to Fort de Chartres for protection, but will be stopping at the festival to educate all who are interested in the healing arts.
Votre Humble et De'vone' Serviteur
Joseph la Bolle'
Barber Surgeon

09/14/2023

Another call has gone out for all patriots to gather at “the Greentree Festival this weekend at Kirkwood Park.
My tables will be setup with the latest 18th century Medical and Dental tools authorized by the King.
If you’re in need ….. the tables are ready.
J. Bolle’

08/31/2023

Leaving for the “Fair at New Boston” at George Rogers Clark park in Springfield, Ohio tomorrow September 1st.
The transports are ready …. Medical supplies are loaded to help where needed.
My tables will be set up the the finest surgical tools of the 18th century and will be ready if required .
Along with my surgical tools I will also have full spectrum of dental tools for those who are “down in the mouth”.
The Fair runs both Saturday and Sunday and my transports leave to the next engagement by the Mississippi River right after.
Stop if you can ……..
J Bolle’
Barber Surgeon

07/20/2023

Only 146 years ago….. what will things look like in the next 146 years?
Very kool!!
Cheers 🍻

A Buffalo soldier and Indians 1877

07/14/2023

A “BIG WIN” for the French!!!!
Was at the 250th reenactment at Fort Ticonderoga !!!
It was a glorious Victory ✌️!!!

265 years ago a British Army suffered one of the most severe defeats in the history of its North American service. The largest army the continent had seen to that date was defeated by a French force barely a quarter of its size.

The stinging defeat witnessed the immortal bravery of the Highland Regiment, the 42nd Foot, who, although cut down, were the only British soldiers to breach the French lines. The French, commanded by the Marquis de Montcalm, inflicted horrific casualties on the British behind hastily built fortifications, and the engagement stands as the bloodiest battle fought in North America until the Mexican-American War in the 1840s.

Henry Ogden's 1930 painting of the battle in the Fort Ticonderoga Museum's collection, although painted centuries after the event, captures the thrill of the victorious French army against the odds. You can follow the battle as it unfolded and read the report of a recent archaeological survey of the battlefield on our website here: https://www.fortticonderoga.org/learn-and-explore/collections/archaeology/

12/26/2022

Now that is a Great Picture!!!!
Love Colonial Williamsburg !!!
Cheers 🍻

Happy winter solstice!

10/03/2022

Check this out !!!!
Wow !!!

"I stopped [a] full charge of lead, consisting of one round ball and three buckshot, between the eyes, passing to the left under the frontal bone crushing my left eye out of the cavity well. I thought I was done for."

Private Jacob Miller, 9th Indiana Infantry, miraculously survived being shot in the face during the Battle of Chickamauga on September 19, 1863.

He amusingly wrote years later that, "if it [were] possible for me to meet the deluded enemy that shot me I should congratulate him on being a center shot, for that gives me the name of 'Center Shot.'"