"Captain Alexander Hamilton's company of Artillery 1776" Topic

Under Hamilton, the New York Provincial Company of Artillery took part in the Battles around New York city and later at White Plains, Trenton, and Princeton. They played an important role at Trenton, breaking up a counter attack and driving off the Hessian battalion guns. According to Princeton University lore, Hamilton's gunners shot a cannonball through a window of the university's main building, Nassau Hall, and decapitated a portrait of King George II.

When Hamilton accepted a position on George Washington's staff in March 1777, command was turned over to Lt. Thomas Thompson, a former sergeant in the unit whom Hamilton had commissioned.

The U.S. Army's Center of Military History traces the lineage of the New York Provincial Company of Artillery down to the 1st Battalion, 5th Field Artillery, making it one of the oldest active unit in the regular U.S. Army.

Figures for the battery are from Fife and Drum miniatures.

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Looking good!

They look great 23rd!

I picked this company to model as a crew for my collection also, and because of their prevalence in the early war fighting in the northern theater.

P.S. I quick dry-brush of steel at a 90 degree angle across those wheel rims will pop those carriages nicely too.

Those mold lines on the left hand gun barrel would drive me crazy.

But, that's just me.