Wish List For Jenkins For February. (1 Viewer)

[mikemiller1955]

I would like artillery crews for 1812 (both sides) and Porter as promised...

Culloden Moor Brits and a flag bearer...

A piper for the Jacobites...

maybe the 2nd of the 4 "hand to hand" combat sets promised for the Jacobites...

John had mentioned dragoons for Culloden Moor...

anything for Snow Shoes...Langy should be coming soon...

anything for Monongahela...John had mentioned an effort as he has had so many requests...

I would like to see some "dead" figures...for any series...

I would always welcome more Indians...John had promised Senecas for 1812...

Well....that's a pretty big wish list...

Last two months have been very easy on me financially...

Halkett should be coming soon...but probably not this month...John's site says delivered to dealers in late January 2010...

Seneca Indians

 

[marco55]

Would like to see Langy,Duranytre,indians,and dead figures for BOS.
Mark

 

[Jagdpanther]

Would like to see Langy,Duranytre,indians,and dead figures for BOS.
Mark

Thats sound good Mark. I have decided to keep my BOS sets so naturally I would also like to see more BOS. But john did say BOS was coming to a end, but hopefully Langy wont be the last for BOS.

 

[old tank]

I would like to see a few more sets of tricorn hats for BOM.
1 set like bom o6 wounded
and a few firing sets and sargent and corporal set.
1 set of indians to go with scarayouady.

 

[Combat]

Christopher Gist for Monongahela or a French flag bearer for POA. And how about - wait for it - BUSHY RUN?

 

[mikemiller1955]

Christopher Gist for Monongahela or a French flag bearer for POA. And how about - wait for it - BUSHY RUN?

Bushy Run...

Yesssssssssssssssss...

What a surprise...we didn't know that was coming

 

[fortdearborn]

Bushy Run has so many possibilities. Hmm. Let's see. 42nd and 77th are obvious, but how about depicting them stripped to their waistcoats as Robert Kirk described some of them (hey, it was hot that day). Packhorses weighed down with flour sacks would be a versatile addition. "Scouts and drivers" scared, huddling in the bushes. Its high time that the JJ line add some representatives of the 60th "Royal Americans." This might be the opportunity to add Woodland Indian casualties, particularly fallen ones, as they are long overdue.

Anybody out there planning to mix-n-match with the Frontline Highlanders, as I am planning to do?
Marc

 

[fortdearborn]

Regarding BOS, what about Rogers coat being discovered by the French? A triumphant French soldier brandishing the coat in the air with one hand, maybe with the other hand holding up Rogers' commission that was found in a pocket.

Or perhaps the coat could be laying in a heap on the snow with one or two French/Indians looking down at it. Poking it with a stick. Maybe Rogers used the coat draped in tree branches or draped over a bush to create a diversion. Slow down pursuers. make them think he was behind that bush ready to pick one of them off. A coat draped from a tree branch could also be used with the lean-to and campfire.

Another idea,and the one that fits my hunch as to why Rogers was separated from his coat is that he used it to cover one of his wounded Rangers, helping the poor soul who was losing blood to stave off hypothermia. Using that idea, a casualty laying on the snow, partially covered with the coat. A Regular or NJ Blue partially covered in the green coat wold make for a colorful addition. And, we all want more casualties!
Marc

 

[mikemiller1955]

Marc...I have looked at the Frontline 42nd...they are nice...are the stockings correct...

I just ordered the three sets of John's 78th...the QHL's...

if he ever does a Bushy Run...I would use them in it...

they should work for the 77th...

ps...I'll have that in the mail for you tomorrow morning...

 

[Fraxinus]

Can I say Blacksmith Building for the Fort Series!!! Then I would be happy!!!

As a far off idea - a Bakery !!! Have a military post, you gotta have a Bakery!!!

As it regards Bushy Run, we have great maps and journals for Bushy Run.

However, I am still a tad confused about specifics of the battle as 2 companies of Light Infantry enveloped the Indians from the left flank, followed by a company of grenadiers and another company of Light Infantry advancing from the front.

So we have 3 companies of Light Infantry and 1 company of Grenadiers advancing. But whose Light Infantry? I am thinking the Grenadiers were the 42nd. The 77th was not in good shape at the time of the battle, recently returning from the Caribean where disease took a severe toll on the regiment.

At the time of the battle, would there still have been only 1 company of Light Infantry and 1 Company of Grenadiers per Battalion with the other 8 companies per Battalion being Regulars?

So the Light Infantry from the 42th, 77th, and the Royal Americans and the 42nd Grenadiers did the final advance? Something tells me this is not right.

I would bet Combat knows!!! Any Help?

(Note: the Royal Americans were one of the very few British regiments having 2 Battalions, so things can get even more obscure).

http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/busheyrun.jpg

Reference page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/frontierforts.htm

For Combat: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/ff36.html

One of the few internet maps were you can read the print (after clicking your magnifying glass that is) !!!

 

[Combat]

As it regards Bushy Run, we have great maps and journals for Bushy Run.

However, I am still a tad confused about specifics of the battle as 2 companies of Light Infantry enveloped the Indians from the left flank, followed by a company of grenadiers and another company of Light Infantry advancing from the front.

So we have 3 companies of Light Infantry and 1 company of Grenadiers advancing. But whose Light Infantry? I am thinking the Grenadiers were the 42nd. The 77th was not in good shape at the time of the battle, recently returning from the Caribean where disease took a severe toll on the regiment.

At the time of the battle, would there still have been only 1 company of Light Infantry and 1 Company of Grenadiers per Battalion with the other 8 companies per Battalion being Regulars?

So the Light Infantry from the 42th, 77th, and the Royal Americans and the 42nd Grenadiers did the final advance? Something tells me this is not right.

I would bet Combat knows!!! Any Help?

(Note: the Royal Americans were one of the very few British regiments having 2 Battalions, so things can get even more obscure).

http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/busheyrun.jpg

Reference page: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/frontierforts.htm

For Combat: http://www.usgwarchives.net/pa/1pa/1picts/frontierforts/ff36.html

One of the few internet maps were you can read the print (after clicking your magnifying glass that is) !!!

The first two light infantry companies pulled out for the flanking attack included one each from the 77th and 42nd. I believe the Grenadiers were from the 42nd.

See page 57 of this book for a good illustration: http://books.google.com/books?id=sf...r=&cd=49#v=onepage&q=bushy run battle&f=false

 

[Combat]

One additional piece of info on Bushy Run, a small group of American rangers under Capt. Lemuel Barrett participated in the British attack. They are noted on the 1765 Hutchins map as part of the flanking force.

 

[Fraxinus]

The attacking Grenadiers are the 42nd. See the previous links under usgarchives.

The third light infantry company advanced from the front and not the flank, so maybe the Americans were part of the 42nd or more likely 77th flank advance?

 

[Combat]

The attacking Grenadiers are the 42nd. See the previous links under usgarchives.

Osprey also indicates that Bouquet ordered the "77th and 42nd light companies, as well as their grenadiers, to withdraw precipitously from the front perimeter as if retreating in fear, then to quickly exit...and regroup as a mobile strike force." So it appears that Grenadiers from both may have participated. That's the best I can make out. The Maryland Rangers were also involved in the flank attack although their numbers would have been small.

 

[Fraxinus]

http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1768bushyrun.jpg

Another map. This map shows the position of the American Rangers. But the grenadiers are now in the flank sweep with 1 company of light infantry and the American Rangers. Two light infantry companies are advancing from the front.

This is different from the map I had previously posted where the grenadiers are advancing from the front.

Fun threads ahead!!!

 

[Fraxinus]

True Story:

I just googled "Battle of Bushy Run" under the Image Search. On page 8 of the Search was an image of Combat's Icon!!!!

 

[Combat]

http://www.mapsofpa.com/18thcentury/1768bushyrun.jpg

Another map. This map shows the position of the American Rangers. But the grenadiers are now in the flank sweep with 1 company of light infantry and the American Rangers. Two light infantry companies are advancing from the front.

This is different from the map I had previously posted where the grenadiers are advancing from the front.

Fun threads ahead!!!

If you take a look at the Osprey map of the flanking attack, the two light infantry companies would have conducted the sweep and the Grenadiers would have joined in as the Indians fled past their position on the western end of the defensive line. The pursuit would then have continued west for some distance.

 

[mk26gmls]

I would love anything BOM from John. I really like how he is doing it for this range through the Collector's Club.

 

[Combat]

I was in the Gettysburg Antique Center this week and they still have the FM-03 set for sale. They were asking $110.

 

[The Breaker]

Sorry FIW collectors (thanks though for collecting all the FIW to allow him to branch out), I am hoping for a Royal Navy Sailors manning a Gatling or Gardner gun in the Eastern Sudan in 1884.