"Which Was Your Favorite AWI Unit (Rebels)" Topic

I think that the Maryland/Deleware unit was the bravest and most engaged in the AWI. So, they are my favorites in real life.
When it comes to model soldiers, I am really taken with Eureka's Glovers Marbleheaders. Great uniforms and fun to paint. John Glover does not get enough recognition as one of the true heroes of the Rev War. You never hear about how many times the Marbleheaders rowed the Continental Army to safety.

I wish that Nic had done more poses.
More's the pity.

So, who are your choices.

I'll go with the 3rd NY. They saw a fair amount of action. And the iniforms give a good mix.

My current favorites are the Pennsylvania Associatiors. I did the Philadelphia Light Horse with the now OOP Firing Line range. I am now doing the infantry with Old Glory marines.

You never hear about how many times the Marbleheaders rowed the Continental Army to safety.

Once wasn't it?

Long Island, Trenton…

It is a toss up for me between Sherburne's additional regiment and Haslett's Delaware regiment.

Does my generic rifle regiment count? Originally created to do frontier simulations, they have also been used in a number of actions both in the north and south. If rifles don't work for the scenario we've treated them as musket armed militia.

Webss Additional Regt., but then my Great, Great, Great, Great, Great, Great Granfather served in it.

The 3rd New Jersey Regiment (The New Jersey Blues) because of their distinctive uniforms -- really stand out on the table.

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Kirkwood's Delawares.

I read "Washington's secret six" I would have to say the spys that risked everything.

Long Island, Trenton…

A bit quibbly perhaps, but they didn't actually "save" Washington at Trenton, they just got him across the river so that he could attack.

I second the Pennsylvania Militia group as my 6x Great Grandfather was Brig. Gen. James Potter.

Brendan, Didn't Glover get Washington across the Hudson avoiding capture in NY?
And he did get him to Trenton which argueably saved the Continental Army from falling apart.
I also believe that there are other accounts of the Marbelheaders using their particular skill to move troops around New England.

In any event, Glover and hs boys were unsung heroes.

Tryon County New York militia – the family outfit.

Maryland Regiments then I'd say Wayne's Legion.

1. Stark's Regiment at Bunker/Breed's Hill.

2. Smallwood's MD Regiment.

3. Wayne's Light Infantry.

Clark's Illinois Regiment of the Virginia Line. That was a campaign. That was a victory.

I'm partial to Kaintuck militia, too.

Crockett's Western Battalion.

Green Mountain Boys, not even part of the frakas but up for a good fight.

I thought it was Ethan Allen and the Green Mountain Boys who captured Fort Ticonderoga and presented George Washington with a siege artillery train, "In the name of the great Jehovah, and the Continental Congress!"

A significant coup and an immortal piece of rhetoric, if they never did another thing.

Yup, but Vermont wasn't a colony and didn't join the US for a while. An independent republic for a few years.

I think at that time Vermont was part of NY. In fact, I believe that Ethan and his boy were considered outlaws by NY.

It was disputed territory calimed by NY and Allen and his ilk wanted an independent colony.

Indeed – they actually negotiated with the British for recognition.

Maxwell's Jersey Brigade.

Eric

Eric you sure you don't mean Maxwell's Silver Hammer?

Something like that…

Eric

Green Mountain Boys…The only Regiment that ended up with their own state!!!!

The Maryland and Delaware Continentals, specifically the reconstituted 1st Maryland Regiment in Greene's southern army and Kirkwood's two-company Delware Battalion who were veterans of Camden and who fought so well under de Kalb.

Washington's command of Continental Light Dragoons in the same campaigns, the Philadelphia Light Horse, any of the Continental artillery units, The provisional Continental Corps of Light Infantry, and the 2d Canadian Regiment.

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Definitely the Maryland/Delaware troops.

Then again, my ancestors served in the Augusta County Militia (Virginia), but they were not what I'd call distinguished.

Lee's Legion. Purple jumpsuits rock!

Royal Marines … am I on the correct thread?

Wayne's Legion.
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Waynes Legion was in the 1790's..

Bob C.

Depends on year.
1776 Haslet's Delaware regiment. The stuff of legeands.
1777 Poor's brigade at both Saratoga battles. They stood up to british regulars in the open and held their own.
1780-81 the Maryland-Delaware light battalion. Cowpens. Need you say more?

1st South Carolina regiment.

For me, it's the 1st Rhode Island after it was re-constituted in 1778-79. The General Assembly voted that every "able bodied Negro, Mulatto and Indian slave" could enlist for the duration of the war and bounties and wages would be the same as those of free men. Although less than 200 enlisted, it fought well in subsequent campaigns in Rhode Island, New York and Virginia.

I would have to just admire the way the state of Virginia consistently produced troops for the Revolution the entire period. Sent troops north for the early campaigns. The debacle in Charleston. Militia drafts to form more Continentals. Throughout maintaining enough militia to make an invasion by the Brits dodgy.

11th Virginia, Morgan's Rifles. But maybe that's because it's the only AWI re-enactment unit left out here…

>Royal Marines … am I on the correct thread?

Ha ha…but remember, no "Royal" until 1802. Prior to that, "HM Marines."

The oldest figs in my army are Scruby 30mm -- Haslets, and Glovers. Just a few left, but mixed into larger units of more recent make. But I love them.

Have to go with the Maryland-Delaware boys overall . As far as a individual though and I hate to say it but Benedict Arnold ( If Gates Army loses Saratoga not sure there is a Revolution ).