#queensrangers

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[minifiga]

Minifiga is a year old!? That flew by!

No miniatures to show you but here’s something else I’ve been working on.

Set in the Carolinas, around 1780.

Baggage trains have been going missing and the drivers turning up days later, flayed and hanging from trees.

Suspecting Indians, the governor calls upon the Queens Rangers. An elite unit of provincial loyalists. Joined by a native guide and an officer from the Indian Department, they journey into the wilderness to seek out the savages. What they find is not of this world…

[minifiga]

Forging ahead with the QR officer.

The sculptor has chosen to give the figure the double frogged cross belt, which was issued to the light infantry company to carry the bayonet and hatchet.

This officer has obviously found a different use for the hatchet slot and has chosen to carry his light infantry sabre and a bayonet for his Brown Bess musket.

While some officers carried a fusil, most officers in the British Army during the War of Independence were discouraged from carrying a firearm. It was said that an officer could not properly carry out his battlefield duties whilst trying to load and fire a flintlock.

[minifiga]

Got a bit more work done on the amazing FeR Miniatures Queens Rangers Officer in 75mm. They have placed the date around 1777. However, the jacket is based on an extant example which I place around the 1793 revival of the regiment in Canada. The Rangers serving in the Revolutionary war did not have the black facings. The jacket is also cut in the "narrow back" style. Something which came into popularity later on in the 18th century. Another interesting thing about the cut of the 1770's ranger jacket is that it was sleeveless. The Rangers primarily wore a "roundabout" jacket. A simple sleeved waistcoat with sleeves. Their full tailcoat was sleeveless so the sleeves and wings from the round jacket protruded from underneath.

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