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The Village is transformed into a series of military camps and visitors are invited to meet and mingle with re-enactors from both sides of colonial and early America's military conflicts. Come see what it was really like for those who fought to win America's freedoms. Great fun for the entire family! Linger into the evening on Saturday to visit the encampments by twilight.

In addition to strolling the Village and visiting the encampments, mornings on both days include a tour of a British camp, an 18th-century fencing demonstration, marching, drilling, and firing demonstrations, and a military fashion show.  Afternoon highlights each day include a fashion show of ladies' wear from the late 18th-century period, a parade of units to the countryside, and a mock battle when the Patriots face off against the Redcoats.  Fife & drum music and cannon demonstrations are offered both days, morning and afternoon.  Throughout the day Saturday only, Battlegroup Boston, New England's oldest miniature gaming group, presents historical miniature gaming.  

See a detailed listing of events and activities on Saturday and Sunday.

Here is a list of groups that are expected at this year's event:

For the Americans and Colonial Allies
Alden's Sixth Massachusetts Regiment
Billerica Colonial Minute Men
Danvers Alarm List Company
Eleventh Pennsylvania Regiment
Fifth Connecticut Regiment
First New Hampshire Regiment
Lebanon (Conn.) Town Militia
Lexington Training Band
85eme Regiment de Sainte Onge
Regiment Bourbonais
Second Massachusetts Regiment
Second Rhode Island Regiment
Sixth Connecticut Regiment
Smith Castle Musueum (civilian)
Stow Minutemen
Tenth Massachusetts Regiment
Third New York Regiment
Thirteenth Continental Regiment
Twenty-Fifth Continental Associates
Twenty-Fourth Connecticut Regiment
United Train of Artillery
Whitcomb's Rangers
Yarmouth Minutemen
Great Quinnehtukqut Company of Artificers and Traders

For the Crown
Eighth Regiment of Foot
First Foot Guards
Fourth Regiment of Foot
His Majesty's Ship Somerset
King's Rangers
Ninth Regiment of Foot
Peters' Corps (American Loyalists fighting for the Crown)
Regiment von Donop and von Reidesel
Royal Irish Artillery
Seventy-Fourth Regiment of Foot
Sixteenth Light Dragoons
Sixty-Fourth Regiment of Foot
Tenth Regiment of Foot
Twenty-Fourth Regiment of Foot