Rifled Carbines for Highlanders, French Indian War (1 Viewer)

[Fraxinus]

In the book The Defeat of the French in Pennsylvania 1758 ... by Douglas Cubbison, there is a list of stores unloaded in Philadelphia (Spring 1758) include in the lists is the artillery train shipped to General Forbes for his expedition against Fort Duquesne. Among the stores shipped:

Carbines w/rifled barrels & bayonets & molds 100
Flints, Carbines 2,000
Flints for Highlanders Carbine 41,600
Flints for Musquets 124,000
Flints for Pistols 1,250
Flints, Highlanders Pistols 43,600
Musquets with Bayonets & Slings 1,000

So 10 Muskets : 1 Rifled Carbine with an abundant supply of carbine flints. Any reference to Highlanders would be linked to the 77th Regiment (Montgomerie's Highlanders) which was assigned to Forbes Campaign along with a battalion of the 60th Royal Americans. The 77th Regiment was soundly routed trying to take Fort Duquense in Sept 1758 (Grants Defeat), but Fort Duquense eventually fell to the British in November 1758.

So not only carbines, but rifled barreled carbines during the French Indian War. A number of these rifled carbines were probably looted by the French & Indians after the battle.

The Battle of Fort Duquense occurs 3 years after Braddock's Defeat at the Monongahela. Very similar outcome.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Fort_Duquesne

http://www.kronoskaf.com/syw/index.php?title=1758_-_British_expedition_against_Fort_Duquesne

 

[Fraxinus]

From the Osprey volume Highlanders (page 26):

The 42nd received ten rifles for its best marksmen, as did seven other regiments, just prior to the Battle of Ticonderoga (July 8, 1758). These 80 rifles came from a batch of 300 rifled carbines, each fitted with a bayonet and steel rammers. They were brought to North America by Colonel James Prevost of the Royal Americans (60th Regiment Foot).

The fact that these rifles were capable of accepting a bayonet indicates that they were manufactured for the military, and not simply hunting rifles.

http://books.google.com/books?id=oj...v=onepage&q=highlander rifled carbine&f=false