Announcing the Third Special Collectors’ club set for 2014.
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#19
STATUS –PREVIEW, 1st OCTOBER- 31st OCTOBER 2014
The Royal Ecossais was raised by John Drummond in 1744 and disbanded 1763.
Their organisation was to be based on that of the Irish regiments ,to be made up of 11 companies of fusiliers and 1 of grenadiers each of 50 men plus officers for a total of 660 effectives. The officers and men used to form the regiment came from several different sources, firstly from Scotsmen serving in the Irish regiments, Scottish exiles living in France together with recruits smuggled out of Scotland. With an effective of 500 men and officers assembled at St.Omer, with John Lord Drummond as lieutenant colonel, (as for all Royal Regiments, the King of France was always the colonel ) although Lord Drummond wrote on the 29th December 1744 that he was missing only 10 men to complete the regiment.
This regiment, as many other foreign regiments in tjhe French Army were not mercenaries as is often claimed, they were more often than not political or religious refugees who could not safely return to their homeland for fear of persecution.
The regiment had a strength of 350 men at the Battle of Culloden on the16th of April 1746 were they were in the second line and later they helped to cover the retreat of the Highlanders right wing, an attempt by Argyll Militia to interfere was pushed aside but in the skirmish the two battalions became separated and one , probably the 2nd battalion, was caught and surrounded by British Dragoons and forced to surrender in Inverness, the other one, together with their colours continued its retreat towards Ruthven Barracks and did not surrender until the 19th of April.
An Officer with the Regimental Colours will be a general release in January 2015.
JJCLUBSET#19
THE JACOBITE REBELLION 1745,
REGIMENT ROYAL ECOSSOIS, OFFICER WITH COLONEL’S COLOURS,
(2pcs)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$60
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#18
STATUS –PREORDER, 1st OCTOBER - 31st OCTOBER 2014
Montcalm began his military career at the age of nine when he was commissioned an ensign in the army. He gained significant military experience in the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and was wounded several times.
In May 1756 Montcalm was appointed major general and commander of French forces in New France. Over the next three years, the forces under Montcalm’s leadership enjoyed considerable success in North America forcing the English at Oswego to surrender on August 14, 1756 and capturing Fort William Henry after a six-day siege ending on August 9, 1757.
In the summer of 1758 General Montcalm commanded a force of 3,700 French soldiers at Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga). On July 7, as a British force of 17,000 troops were preparing to attack the Fort, Montcalm set his army to work constructing a thick log defensive wall about a half mile to the west of the Fort. On the morning of July 8th, his defensive works were attacked. At the end of the day, his army held strong repelling the British and securing for France its greatest victory of the French & Indian War.
JJCLUBSET#18
BATTLE OF FORT CARILLON, TICONDEROGA 8th JULY 1758,
Lieutenant General Marquis de Montcalm,
(1pc)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$42
To be continued...........................................
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#19
STATUS –PREVIEW, 1st OCTOBER- 31st OCTOBER 2014
The Royal Ecossais was raised by John Drummond in 1744 and disbanded 1763.
Their organisation was to be based on that of the Irish regiments ,to be made up of 11 companies of fusiliers and 1 of grenadiers each of 50 men plus officers for a total of 660 effectives. The officers and men used to form the regiment came from several different sources, firstly from Scotsmen serving in the Irish regiments, Scottish exiles living in France together with recruits smuggled out of Scotland. With an effective of 500 men and officers assembled at St.Omer, with John Lord Drummond as lieutenant colonel, (as for all Royal Regiments, the King of France was always the colonel ) although Lord Drummond wrote on the 29th December 1744 that he was missing only 10 men to complete the regiment.
This regiment, as many other foreign regiments in tjhe French Army were not mercenaries as is often claimed, they were more often than not political or religious refugees who could not safely return to their homeland for fear of persecution.
The regiment had a strength of 350 men at the Battle of Culloden on the16th of April 1746 were they were in the second line and later they helped to cover the retreat of the Highlanders right wing, an attempt by Argyll Militia to interfere was pushed aside but in the skirmish the two battalions became separated and one , probably the 2nd battalion, was caught and surrounded by British Dragoons and forced to surrender in Inverness, the other one, together with their colours continued its retreat towards Ruthven Barracks and did not surrender until the 19th of April.
An Officer with the Regimental Colours will be a general release in January 2015.
JJCLUBSET#19
THE JACOBITE REBELLION 1745,
REGIMENT ROYAL ECOSSOIS, OFFICER WITH COLONEL’S COLOURS,
(2pcs)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$60
JJ DESIGNS COLLECTORS’ CLUB SET#18
STATUS –PREORDER, 1st OCTOBER - 31st OCTOBER 2014
Montcalm began his military career at the age of nine when he was commissioned an ensign in the army. He gained significant military experience in the War of Austrian Succession (1740-1748) and was wounded several times.
In May 1756 Montcalm was appointed major general and commander of French forces in New France. Over the next three years, the forces under Montcalm’s leadership enjoyed considerable success in North America forcing the English at Oswego to surrender on August 14, 1756 and capturing Fort William Henry after a six-day siege ending on August 9, 1757.
In the summer of 1758 General Montcalm commanded a force of 3,700 French soldiers at Fort Carillon (Ticonderoga). On July 7, as a British force of 17,000 troops were preparing to attack the Fort, Montcalm set his army to work constructing a thick log defensive wall about a half mile to the west of the Fort. On the morning of July 8th, his defensive works were attacked. At the end of the day, his army held strong repelling the British and securing for France its greatest victory of the French & Indian War.
JJCLUBSET#18
BATTLE OF FORT CARILLON, TICONDEROGA 8th JULY 1758,
Lieutenant General Marquis de Montcalm,
(1pc)
Limited Edition (TBA)
Retail us$42
To be continued...........................................
