W. Britain 16022 Continental Line, First American Regiment Charging with Bayonet No.1, 1777-1787

Description

By 1779 blue coats became the new national uniform faced or 'turned up' with various colors to indicate which region of the country the regiments came from. Soldiers from New York and New Jersey wore buff facings with soldiers from the New England states having white lapels, collars and cuffs. Red facings distinguished the soldiers of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia, and blue were from the Carolinas and Georgia. These figures represent the mid-Atlantic state regiments of Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland and Virginia with their red facings. These troops were in the outposts on the Western frontier, making them great opponents for the Woodland Indians and Butler's Rangers already released.While the Seven Years' War raged on the European continent, Britain and France fought the war by proxy on the American continent using some regular troops but mostly native tribes and colonists. Both the British and the American colonists enlisted native contingents to fight during the Revolutionary War, though the British used more by far. The colonists were aggressively expansionist while the British promised to enforce and uphold the treaties signed to limit the land the whites could hold.