"Figure Suggestions for South Carolina Independent Company?" Topic

Looking at this print, I am wanting to do a little action around Fort Loudoun, Tennessee, set during the French & Indian War. Scale? Either 15mm or 10mm…would lean more towards the former.

Suggestions for figures to replicate the print?

As far as I can tell, that's the basic British infantry uniform of the era, with green facings and no lace at all. Any British infantry figure without exaggerated lace detail should do the job. I'm using RSM 25mm British for the Independents with Washington at Fort Necessity.

15mm Minifig or Essex SYW British would work. I think the Old Glory equivalent has sculpted-on lace detail that isn't appropriate for Independents, or for the Carolina Provincial company that made up the rest of the garrison.

I visited Fort Loudon a few years ago. Great museum, great reconstructed fort, and the Cherokee museum is just down the road a bit. Well worth a day trip.

If I recall the history correctly, there was no military activity around Fort Loudon – the Cherokees were pro-British and the French never raided the area. All was peaceful garrison duty, until the British command and the back country settlers alienated the Cherokees so badly that they laid siege to the fort themselves.

Just sayin'. But if you want to skirmish F&IW in the Tennessee Valley, heck, I'll play.

There was a campaign and battles when an expedition was sent towards Fort Loudoun, I thought something in the "might have happened" realm would give me an excuse to game something near the fort. :)

The book Carolina in Crisis covers the activity towards the fort:

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Thanks for the info, Zippy! I am stopping by the fort in March on the way to an annual study group at Chickamauga.

That expedition towards the fort, was the British trying to fight their way through the Cherokee Nation to relieve the fort, after the Cherokees had risen. The expedition burned some Cherokee towns and had one pitched battle with the Cherokees before they declared victory and went home, without reaching Fort Loudon after all. Later, after the fort had fallen, there was a second expedition that reached the Overhill towns and convinced the Cherokees to sue for peace.

Yeah, the Cherokee War is interesting and gameable. Historically, once the Cherokees started shooting at the fort, the garrison hunkered down and prayed for someone to come save them. But some French coulda come up from Illinois, with or without Indian allies, and there coulda been more action around the fort, with the Cherokees on either side, depending on when it all went down.