Having initially focused on the New England and mid Atlantic contingents of the American army, it's time to move down South a bit.
This regiment was one of North Carolina's contingent of Continental regiments.
It was noted to have blue coats faced with green in 1777 - 1778.
The flag they are carrying here is one of the many variations on the "Stars and Stripes" theme before designs became [somewhat] more standardized.
It is called the Guilford Courthouse flag, because it was known to have been carried by North Carolina militia at that battle in 1781
The drummer has to have the fashionable "Reversed Colors", right?! The figures are Brigade Games "Southern Militia", and the flag was created from images on the internet.
Very nice, great looking regiment, the uniform is a very nice one and the Brigade figures are rather good, I like them a lot.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Donnie. They make up almost all of my Americans, with some Hessians and British (when the exchange rate, shipping costs, and tariffs made more Perrys less attractive!).
DeleteAnother great colour combination in this uniform Peter. I am wondering why the drummer appears to be heading off to the right, rather than advancing with the rest of the unit?!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Keith. I deliberately chose a more medium blue and green to highlight the combination.. As to the drummer, he does seem a bit mispositioned, doesn't he? Perhaps a right winger? I may have to do a little base surgery there when I check the figures on cloise ispection!
DeleteProportions of these figures just excellent
ReplyDeleteI'm doing some Perry Southern Militia at the moment and the marked chunkiness of their figures was immediately obvious in comparison to the BG ones!
DeleteNice looking unit. Interested to see which other Southern units you do.
ReplyDeleteThanks, Stokes. I have a North Carolina unit done but not yet posted, and 2 units of Southern Loyalist militia in progress.
DeleteLike those Peter, a very spiffy looking uniform like that blue
ReplyDeleteCheers
Matt
There's almost no end to the variety of American uniforms, although more than 50 - 100 men ever wore them at the same time may be doubtful! :-)
DeleteAnother striking unit Peter. The drummer looks fine to me; something has caught his eye that the others haven't seen yet.
ReplyDeleteThanks Lawrence; that could be general Howe's men making another flanking march! :-)
DeleteThat's a great looking unit, love the drummer in green!
ReplyDeleteThanks, Ray. I was happy to find this uniform among the options for a North Carolina regiment!
DeleteLovely figures and painting and the green and blue works nicely!
ReplyDeleteBest Iain
Thank you, Iain!
DeleteLovely blue uniform, and great looking unit Peter!
ReplyDeleteMerci, Phil. Rochambeau and his boys will be in wave 2!
DeleteLovely figures and strikingly painted, Peter.
ReplyDeleteThanks so much, Richard!
DeleteGreat looking unit Peter...I LOVE that flag
ReplyDeleteThanks! Although there is a lot of missing information on the Patriot side, I've been pleasantly surprised to find out how much flag information is available. I'm not super fussy about having the flag match up exactly with the unit every time!
DeleteGorgeous Peter. I am a sucker for that deep sky blue.
ReplyDeleteBest wishes, James
Thanks, James. Probably [art of why we all love the Bavarian Napoleonic army, too! :-)
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