Hi guys!
We are glad to present to you our new figure: New York Riots. It is inspired by the riots occured in New York during the nineteenth century, that also inspired the movie Gangs of New York.
The figure is 1/24 scale (75mm) and comes in 6 pieces of grey resin. You can by it at our website here: http://www.miniaturasfortes.com/product-category/figures/
Some historical background:
New York witnessed great civil disturbances during the XIX century, which reached their peak during the Draft Riots of 1863. The city was growing fast, but it was not growing better. Its population doubled, on average, every twenty years before the Civil War. It quadrupled between 1825 and 1855.
Crime was rampant. The notorious Five Points district (portrayed in the 2002 movie The Gangs of New York) was synonymous with murder, mayhem, prostitution and robbery, and it was an epicenter of the Draft Riots. Five Points was named for the intersection of five streets: Mulberry, Anthony (now Worth) Street, Cross (now Park) Street, Orange (now Baxter) Street, and Little Water Street (which no longer exists).
The gangs flourished. The most important included the Plug Uglies, the Dead Rabbits, the Short Tails, Shirt Tails, Daybreak Boys, Swamp Angels, Slaughter Housers, and the Roach Guards, but also anti-Irish, nativist gangs like the Bowery Boys. Among these gangs’ leaders were such colorful but dangerous men as Bill “the Butcher” Poole, “Red Rocks” Farrell, “Slobbery Jim,” “Sow” Madden, “Piggy” Noles, “Suds” Merrick, “Cowlegged Sam” McCarthy, “Eat ‘Em Up Jack” McManus, and even some women like “Hell-Cat Maggie”.
Some of these gangs were immersed in economic and political activities. For example, the Plug Uglies were known for their support for the American Party (Know Nothing Party). Their actions included electoral intimidation and militancy for determinate figures in the high spheres of municipal government. Also, they would create firemen companies of volunteers, before there was an established public firemen service, after the Civil War. These companies would also fight against each other for the fires and, occasionally, have their own members participate in the looting and riots.
http://www.miniaturasfortes.com/
We are glad to present to you our new figure: New York Riots. It is inspired by the riots occured in New York during the nineteenth century, that also inspired the movie Gangs of New York.
The figure is 1/24 scale (75mm) and comes in 6 pieces of grey resin. You can by it at our website here: http://www.miniaturasfortes.com/product-category/figures/
Some historical background:
New York witnessed great civil disturbances during the XIX century, which reached their peak during the Draft Riots of 1863. The city was growing fast, but it was not growing better. Its population doubled, on average, every twenty years before the Civil War. It quadrupled between 1825 and 1855.
Crime was rampant. The notorious Five Points district (portrayed in the 2002 movie The Gangs of New York) was synonymous with murder, mayhem, prostitution and robbery, and it was an epicenter of the Draft Riots. Five Points was named for the intersection of five streets: Mulberry, Anthony (now Worth) Street, Cross (now Park) Street, Orange (now Baxter) Street, and Little Water Street (which no longer exists).
The gangs flourished. The most important included the Plug Uglies, the Dead Rabbits, the Short Tails, Shirt Tails, Daybreak Boys, Swamp Angels, Slaughter Housers, and the Roach Guards, but also anti-Irish, nativist gangs like the Bowery Boys. Among these gangs’ leaders were such colorful but dangerous men as Bill “the Butcher” Poole, “Red Rocks” Farrell, “Slobbery Jim,” “Sow” Madden, “Piggy” Noles, “Suds” Merrick, “Cowlegged Sam” McCarthy, “Eat ‘Em Up Jack” McManus, and even some women like “Hell-Cat Maggie”.
Some of these gangs were immersed in economic and political activities. For example, the Plug Uglies were known for their support for the American Party (Know Nothing Party). Their actions included electoral intimidation and militancy for determinate figures in the high spheres of municipal government. Also, they would create firemen companies of volunteers, before there was an established public firemen service, after the Civil War. These companies would also fight against each other for the fires and, occasionally, have their own members participate in the looting and riots.
http://www.miniaturasfortes.com/
