This unit of Continentals I have assigned as being from New York.
Per the 1777 regulations, their dark blue coats have buff facings.
I have given them brown vests and white pants, for no particular reason.
This unit has not applied the (regulation) white lace to their hats.
Note the fifer in reversed colors.
New York's quota for 1777 was 4 regiments (battalions) of Continentals. Interestingly, of all of the 13 Colonies, New York had perhaps the highest percentage of the population with Loyalist sympathies. After evacuating Boston, the British took control of New York City in 1776 following the battles of Brooklyn, Haarlem Heights, etc., and retained control of the city until the end of the War.
Another good looking regiment, a solid,determined looking unit! Lovely work.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Donnie!
DeleteVery evocative.
ReplyDeleteThanks, joe. Once again, I am sure Washington would have been delighted to have many men uniformed as well as these fellows! :-)
DeleteSplendid Continentals unit, well done!
ReplyDeleteMerci, Phil!
DeleteGreat work on these Peter. It is quite a strange feeling walking through New York and the places where the running battles were fought. Almost surreal.
ReplyDeleteMy parents were both born and went to college in NYC, and my grandparents lived their most of their lives. Almost all of the battlefield sites are long developed, but the names remain. There is still Battery Park, the Gowanis Expressway,, Haarlem itself, of course. White Plain, NY was (and is) a very short drive from Greenwich, CT, where I grew up. Greenwich was home to Patriot General Israel Putnam. The part of New Jersey where I did my residency saw a lot of Revolutionary War action as well; Bound Brook, Short Hills, the winter encampment at Jockey Hollow in 1780, Princeton, Trenton. US Route 7 that runs from Norwalk through Ridgefield and New Milford and on North to Massachusetts and Vermont (Bennington) and finally to Canada is also called the Ethan Allen Highway. Hard to avoid Revolutionary history in the Eastern US!
DeleteLovely work, Peter.
ReplyDeleteThank you, Richard!
DeleteNice work Peter. I like the mix of styles in the cocked hats. Got me thinking I "need" some more Continentals in blue.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Chris; I need some NOT in blue; already planning a bunch in hunting shirts, and some of the more unusual uniforms of the "Additional Continental Regiments".
DeleteAnother nice looking unit added to your AWI collection, Peter!
ReplyDeleteGlad you like them, Keith - many more on the way!
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