# Do other countries, besides America, "recreate" their civil wars?

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**Created:** [June 2, 2005, 11:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-besides-america-recreate-their-civil-wars/306639 "2005-06-02T23:33:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![casdave](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c6cbf5/32.png) [@casdave](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/casdave)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 4:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-besides-america-recreate-their-civil-wars/306639/21 "2005-06-07T16:37:44Z")

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There are all sorts of reenactment societies in the UK.

From specific battles, such as the Battle of Towton Moor(google it), sieges of castles, through to recreating entire campaigns - mainly civil war Sealed Knot Society, and also recreating Napoleonic civil defence in the Southern Ports Forts.

We have Romans, Normans conquest, English Civil War, War of the Roses(another of our civil wars) all the way through to military reenactments such as the Battle at Rourkes Drift(which I took part in during an anniversary of the Welsh Guards in Cardiff)

[http://www.ely.org.uk/react.html](http://www.ely.org.uk/react.html)

[http://c8.com/anathematician/lrrs.htm](http://c8.com/anathematician/lrrs.htm)

[http://www.lhiw.org.uk/index.htm](http://www.lhiw.org.uk/index.htm)

[http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/links/society.htm](http://www.livinghistory.co.uk/links/society.htm)

Basically in the UK if you want to dress up in silly clothes, dresses etc you can pick your period in history, pretend you’re Scottish, or Regency Eglish fops, and no one will ever know that you’re gay.

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**Author:** ![Bytegeist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/9dc877/32.png) [@Bytegeist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bytegeist)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-besides-america-recreate-their-civil-wars/306639/22 "2005-06-07T17:55:01Z")

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> [@Rodd Hill](#):
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> Actually, the interesting thing is the number of people _outside_ of the US of A who are interested in re-enacting the War Between the States. There’s groups in Canada, the UK, mainland Europe, Australia, and for all I know, Japan, doing it.

_But it was Pickett’s Charge — General Lee’s disastrous assault on Mount Fuji — that was to prove the turning point of the War Between the States…_

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**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 6:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-besides-america-recreate-their-civil-wars/306639/23 "2005-06-07T18:00:21Z")

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> [@KGS](#):
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> …where they pretend to kill each other with rubber muskets.

_Bom dom dom_…

Whaddya want for nothing… \*a rubber musket?

Bom dom dom\*…

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**Author:** ![tomndebb](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/b9e5f3/32.png) [@tomndebb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tomndebb)\
**Post date:** [June 7, 2005, 7:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/do-other-countries-besides-america-recreate-their-civil-wars/306639/24 "2005-06-07T19:24:43Z")

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