As display shelf space is very tight, I placed the recent Ticonderoga Highlanders on my Culloden shelf. I placed them on side with the Scot rebels. I was happy and the shelf looked good. I figured none of the neighbors would spot the historical inacurracy and outright fabrication.
Then reading up on the Black Watch:
"When the 1745 Jacobite Rising broke out, the regiment returned to the south of Britain in anticipation of a possible French invasion. However one company of the regiment fought at the Battle of Culloden for the Hanoverians under Dugald Campbell of Auchrossan, where they suffered no casualties.[3] From 1747 to 1756 they were stationed in Ireland and then were sent to New York."
I briefly took a few minutes on the internet and found 1 drawing of an early Black Watch Uniforms, supposedly 1739, they had buff cuffs and facings, so the uniforms should be a reasonable match.
http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/uniform.html
So, I think you can add those Ticonderoga Highlanders to your Culloden shelf, but on the British Side and be historically correct.
Unfortunately, this tidbit of information now totally screws up my shelf in a way that does not rest with my sense of order and correctness !!! I placed the Ticonderoga figures on the wrong side of the Battle, where they fitted in so very nicely with the other charging Scots, and now I have this motivation to move them onto the British side of the line, where they do not fit in with my British line set to receive a charge.
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Regiment_of_Foot:
Then reading up on the Black Watch:
"When the 1745 Jacobite Rising broke out, the regiment returned to the south of Britain in anticipation of a possible French invasion. However one company of the regiment fought at the Battle of Culloden for the Hanoverians under Dugald Campbell of Auchrossan, where they suffered no casualties.[3] From 1747 to 1756 they were stationed in Ireland and then were sent to New York."
I briefly took a few minutes on the internet and found 1 drawing of an early Black Watch Uniforms, supposedly 1739, they had buff cuffs and facings, so the uniforms should be a reasonable match.
http://www.blackwatch.50megs.com/uniform.html
So, I think you can add those Ticonderoga Highlanders to your Culloden shelf, but on the British Side and be historically correct.
Unfortunately, this tidbit of information now totally screws up my shelf in a way that does not rest with my sense of order and correctness !!! I placed the Ticonderoga figures on the wrong side of the Battle, where they fitted in so very nicely with the other charging Scots, and now I have this motivation to move them onto the British side of the line, where they do not fit in with my British line set to receive a charge.
Oh what a tangled web we weave,
When first we practice to deceive!
Sir Walter Scott
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/42nd_Regiment_of_Foot:
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