For four decades, military powers across time have descended on Jamestown Settlement to present a unique chronological display of military history.
The annual Military Through the Ages event returns this Saturday and Sunday. Hundreds of reenactors from 39 distinct military units will muster on museum grounds depicting armed forces from 500 B.C.E. all the way to modern-day soldiers with the Virginia Army National Guard.
At Military Through the Ages, visitors will become entrenched in the past and present day in military encampments and get hands-on with reenactors to experience how military uniforms, weapons and tactics evolved through the centuries.
The units at this year’s Military Through the Ages event originate from eight states—Maryland, Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina and Virginia. Units will portray soldiers and military encounters across the globe from Greek times, the medieval period, Hundred Years’ War, War of the Roses, Ame...