I went to Colours 2025 at the Newbury Racecourse last week. Its been a fair few years since I have been to Colours, I have a feeling it might be as long ago when Colours was at the Hexagon in Reading after they changed the name of the show from Armageddon.
Anyhow the show was great and there were a fair few traders there, I did buy something. On the top floor though were all the demonstration and participation games. One game which caught my attention was the Battle of Henrysburg, an episode from the French-Indian Wars.
The British have launched a surprise raid on the rural settlement of Henrysburg, torching homesteads and scattering civilians. Their goal: to isolate and capture Fort Lacolle, a modest but strategically vital French outpost guarding the Richelieu corridor. With the fort under siege, French forces — including Canadian militia and Indigenous allies — are racing north through dense forest to mount a counterattack and break the British lines.
