Latest Addition to the AWI Patriot Forces

This is a regiment of Perry plastic AWI American infantry, painted to represent the 1st Pennsylvania Regiment in the early stages of the conflict. 

Details are taken from the excellent 8 pages of uniform information that comes with each pack of the Perry figures, and the flag was found using Google - may be speculative and was actually sized a bit too small for my 28mm figures, so some of the detail is a bit "soft" after I enlarged it a bit, but after this photo session, I doubt anyone will notice!

The relevant sheet of uniform data - my unit is the top left one!

The flag sheet I found "somewhere" purporting to show standards of multiple PA units - I just picked one I liked!

I did a side on view to show off the flag!

And the next unit off the blocks? it is going to be the Green Mountain Boys!

I have gone with this image for inspiration - many others show the unit with red lapels too, but this one, and another older one I have a copy of, indicate only collars, cuffs and turnback's were red, with the lapels the same dark green as the coat - so I have gone with that version

An interesting history, as pulled from Britannica, and shows things were not all black and white on the Patriot side of the war, either!

 The Green Mountain Boys began in 1770 at present-day Bennington, Vermont, as an unauthorized militia organized to defend the property rights of local residents who had received land grants from New Hampshire. New York, which then claimed present-day Vermont, disputed New Hampshire’s right to grant land west of the Green Mountains. The Green Mountain Boys stopped sheriffs from enforcing New York laws and terrorized settlers who had New York grants, burning buildings, stealing cattle, and administering occasional floggings with birch rods.

The Green Mountain Boys immediately joined the Revolution, and on May 10, 1775, fewer than a hundred of them, under the joint command of Ethan Allen and Benedict Arnold, captured Fort Ticonderoga. Eventually they became part of the Continental Army and served in the abortive offensive against Canada. Reorganized despite an ongoing conflict with New York over jurisdiction, the Green Mountain Boys took the field against General John Burgoyne in 1777, playing central roles at the battles of Hubbardton and Bennington. The latter action, which destroyed a detachment of Burgoyne’s army as it sought to forage for supplies, was crucial to Burgoyne’s eventual defeat.

Other Green Mountain Boys, under Allen’s mercurial leadership, continued an internal war against “Yorkers,” a campaign Allen is said by some accounts to have pursued to the point of negotiating for Vermont’s return to British allegiance. His resignation from the Vermont militia in 1781 rendered the subject moot, and Vermont in 1791 joined the union as its 14th state.