"The World Turned Upside Down - 7th Virginia Cont. Regiment." Topic

The 7th Virginia Regiment was authorised on January 11th, 1776, for service with the Continental Army, at Gloucester, Virginia, and was organized under Colonel William Daingerfield between February 7th – May 8th, 1776 at Gloucester Court House.

The riflemen of the 7th Regiment played a prominent role in driving Lord Dunmore and his loyalist forces off Gwynn's Island and out of Virginia in 1776 with Captain Thomas Posey commanding a rifle company of the 7th regiment and chronicling the engagement in his journal.

Joining the Main Army in 1 May 1777, the regiment would see action at the Battles of Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, whilst Posey and his riflemen would head north for the Battles of Freeman's Farm and Bemis Heights under Colonel Daniel Morgan.

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JJ

Your write ups, as well as your figures are outstanding

Hi and thank you. It's fun sharing this stuff with like minds.

Cheers
JJ

Very impressive. Seeing units like this makes me want to get off my a$$ and get ta paintin'

Thank you.
Well as they say, ‘a journey of a thousand miles starts with the first step'.

JJ

I really like your AWI figures. The Americans have a good mix of uniform and not-so-uniform. Reading your descriptions makes me think that perhaps the AWI should be my next project. Though I'm in the United States, I'm 1,600 miles away from Philadelphia, so I seldom get to visit the battlefields of the war.

I did visit Valley Forge for work once. Flew into Philadelphia and drove out to Valley Forge. The astonishing thing about Valley Forge is that is only about 25 miles (40 kilometers) from Philadelphia. I assume the idea was to keep the British from spreading out, occupying lots of land, and being able to obtain all the food and forage they needed locally. That part of the plan was successful but should the British have decided to get up early one morning, they could have been approaching Valley Forge by breakfast. It was a high-risk plan.

Grelber

I congratulate you on positioning your command stands on two adjacent bases to allow them to be in the center of the unit. You and I may be the only ones to do so. It never made any visual sense to me to put all the command figures together on one stand in a unit of even numbered stands. So unbalanced… then again, I may be a little too obsessed with visual conformity.

Hi Chaps,
Thanks for your comments, much appreciated.

Grelber – visiting battle sites is all part of the pleasure of this daft hobby and I try and include it in most of my travels when the opportunity arrises. At present I'm sowing the seeds with my dear wife to consider another visit to Canada and the Great Lakes area. Who knows what I might get to visit around there, and we haven't been to that neighbourhood since our honeymoon, 38 years ago.

As for Valley Forge, I think the general lack of cavalry in the AWI allowed the armies of the period to maintain much closer forward lines than was usual than say the Napoleonic era in Europe and so light infantry took its place, and yes, I think you are right, Washington didn't want to surrender the countryside to Crown foraging and recon patrols whilst he rebuilt his forces.

W.W. – It's nice to hear from a fellow obsessive. I try to observe a central placement of Colours, and flank companies when present, in their correct place as per precedence. The hobby for me is as much a visual spectacle as all the other aspects and I don't want anything to detract from the ‘eye-feast' one is hoping to enjoy.

Cheers
JJ