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1782 The Year of Blood depicts the conflicts of that year between the American pioneers and British backed Native Americans primary along the upper Ohio Valley, encompassing the area of Kentucky, Ohio, West Virginia, and the western part of Pennsylvania.
1782 was a particularly eventful and bloody year on the frontier. Events of years past culminated into a crescendo of violence and revenge. The Natives were supported and supplied by the British out of Detroit, becoming a serious threat to frontier families. This forced the men to stay and defend their homes, preventing them from moving east to fight the redcoat army.
The title will be published as a series of one-shots, ranging from 22 to 70 page-count. Each one-shot will serve as a chapter for the series and depict one specific event or character of that year on the frontier. There are nine chapters planned. The series will be an historic adaptation, with the material primarily based on historic research with some liberties taken for storytelling sake. An historically write up will supplement each story giving a another perspective and more academic account of the historical content.
The first chapter, coming out this December from Bluewater Production, depicts the Battle of Estill’s defeat. The story introduces the setting for the series. Estill’s defeat was a battle fought in central Kentucky in mid-march of that year. It was extremely fierce fighting, forecasting the events of later that year.
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