{"title":"W. Britain American Revolution Toy Soldiers","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe W. Britain American Revolution catalog covers the full arc of the war — Continental Army officers and infantry, British redcoats, Hessian troops, militia, artillery crews, and the named historical figures collectors return to year after year. George Washington alone has been produced in multiple poses across multiple periods of the war. This is the most-collected American Revolution range in the modern toy soldier hobby.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-81","title":"Art of War American Militiaman, 1775-81","description":"\u003cp\u003eColonial militia in America predated the Revolution by more than a century. From the earliest days of English settlement on the Atlantic seaboard, every able-bodied man in a town was required by law to own a working firearm, train with the local militia company, and turn out when the militia was called. The militia stood watch against French raids during the long colonial wars and against Native American attacks on the frontier; men trained at least twice a year on the village green, and many companies began drilling more often as tensions with Britain rose in the early 1770s. When the war began in earnest in 1775, militia provided the bulk of the manpower in the early campaigns. Some stayed in their local companies through the eight years of the war; others joined the new state regiments or, later, the Continental Line, where the militia tradition kept reinforcing the regular army with men who already knew which end of a musket to aim.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure is W. Britain's three-dimensional miniature of Don Troiani's Soldier Study \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/american-militiaman-1775-81\" title=\"Don Troiani Print\"\u003eAmerican Militiaman, 1775-81\u003c\/a\u003e print — both the print and the figure are available at Breagans. The W. Britain sculptors hold to the Troiani painting as closely as the medium allows: gray hunting frock over a brown waistcoat, brown breeches, the wide-brimmed slouch hat that distinguishes the militiaman from a regular Continental, musket shouldered. He pairs naturally with the other \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-83\"\u003eDon Troiani militiaman \u003c\/a\u003eBreagans carries — a complementary 1775-83 figure based on a different Troiani study — and with the broader Continental Line and militia figures in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16105. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43634017992932,"sku":"16105","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/WBritain_16105_2.jpg?v=1762534501"},{"product_id":"washingtons-inauguation","title":"Washington's Inauguration","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn April 30, 1789, George Washington stood on the second-floor balcony of Federal Hall on Wall Street in New York and took the oath of office as the first President of the United States. The country was just over five years out of the war with Britain, the Constitution had been in force for less than two months, and almost everything about how a president was supposed to act was about to be invented by the man taking the oath. Robert R. Livingston, Chancellor of New York, administered it on a Masonic Bible borrowed from a nearby lodge — there was no federal Bible to hand. Washington wore a plain brown suit cut from American-made broadcloth from Hartford, Connecticut, deliberately rejecting British cloth to make a quiet point about the new country he was about to lead. Livingston announced him to the crowd afterward: \"Long live George Washington, President of the United States!\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThe W. Britain set captures the moment of the oath: three figures on a scenic base — Washington on the right in his brown American-made suit and dress sword, the Bible-bearer at center holding the Masonic Bible on a crimson cushion, and Livingston on the left with hand raised to administer the oath. It is one of the few multi-figure W. Britain pieces depicting a specific datable moment rather than a generic battlefield scene, which makes it a natural centerpiece of any Washington display or U.S. Presidents collection. This set pairs with the other Washington figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\" title=\"Washington mounted toy soldier\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/george-washington-virginia-regiment\" title=\"Washington military miniature\"\u003eVirginia Regiment colonel\u003c\/a\u003e, and the standing 1780-83 figure  — to span the full Washington-through-his-career arrangement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, three-figure set on integrated scenic base, boxed. Catalog number 1789. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43634101649636,"sku":"1789","price":138.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/1789_Washingtons_Inauguration_2_E9FAA3A4844FE.jpg?v=1762534510"},{"product_id":"black-militiaman-of-the-spartanburg-s-c-militia","title":"Black Militiaman of the Spartanburg S.C. Militia","description":"\u003cp\u003eBetween five thousand and nine thousand Black Americans, free and enslaved, served in the Continental Army and the state militias during the Revolutionary War. In South Carolina specifically, the records show forty-one Black men in Continental regiments, twenty-one in militia companies, and nine in the navy — and that's only the documented portion of an under-recorded reality. Forty-eight of the seventy-one in state service were free men when they enlisted; the others were enslaved men whose owners had sent them as substitutes or who served under arrangements that promised eventual freedom. The Spartanburg Regiment of the South Carolina militia, organized in 1775, was active in the southern campaigns and likely fielded a few such men at the Battle of Cowpens on January 17, 1781 — the action this figure depicts, where Daniel Morgan's combined Continental and militia force destroyed Tarleton's British Legion in less than an hour.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure is W. Britain's three-dimensional miniature of \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/black-militiaman-of-the-spartanburg-south-carolina-militia\"\u003eDon Troiani's Soldier Study Black Militiaman of the Spartanburg S.C. Militia\u003c\/a\u003e — both the print and the figure are available at Breagans. Troiani depicts him in the practical dress of a southern frontier militiaman: rust-colored hunting frock over a green waistcoat, white breeches showing the wear of campaigning, gaiters, slouch hat, the standard militia kit of cross-belts and cartridge box. He carries both a musket and a pistol — common for militia who supplied their own weapons. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-83\"\u003ethe 1775-83 American Militiaman \u003c\/a\u003eand the broader \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16108. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43768938791140,"sku":"16108","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16108BackgroundClashofEmpires_345E13FFC14A7.jpg?v=1762536983"},{"product_id":"art-of-war-major-john-buttrick","title":"Art of War: Major John Buttrick","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the morning of April 19, 1775, Major John Buttrick of the Concord militia was standing on Punkatasset Hill above his hometown when he saw smoke rising from the village square. The British search party had set fire to a wooden gun carriage, but to the militiamen above town it looked like the regulars had begun burning Concord. Buttrick formed up his men — about four hundred minutemen and militia drawn from Concord and the surrounding towns — and marched them down the road to North Bridge, where roughly ninety British light infantry held the crossing. He had been ordered not to fire unless fired upon. As his column approached, the British opened fire, killing Captain Isaac Davis of Acton and wounding several others. Buttrick shouted \"Fire! For God's sake, fire!\" The volley that followed killed three British soldiers and wounded several more — the first British troops killed in action in the American Revolution. Ralph Waldo Emerson would later describe it as \"the shot heard round the world.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure is W. Britain's three-dimensional miniature of Don Troiani's Soldier Study \u003ca title=\"Don Troiani print\" href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/major-john-buttrick-massachusetts-minuteman-1775\"\u003eMajor John Buttrick, Massachusetts Minuteman\u003c\/a\u003e, 1775 print — both the print and the figure are available at Breagans. Troiani depicts Buttrick at the moment of advance, in the dark green coat of a Massachusetts militia officer, sash and sword, musket carried at his side. He pairs naturally with the other Don Troiani militiamen Breagans carries — the 1775-81 \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-81\"\u003eAmerican Militiaman\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-83\"\u003e1775-83 American Militiaman\u003c\/a\u003e — and with the broader \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16107. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43770472268004,"sku":"16107","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16107ArtofWarenvironmentCW_041A3B5F53412.jpg?v=1762537191"},{"product_id":"continental-line-in-hunting-shirt-standing-alert","title":"Continental Line in Hunting Shirt Standing Alert","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe hunting shirt is the most American garment of the Revolutionary War. Long, loose-fitting, fringed, and modeled on the practical dress of the eighteenth-century North American frontier, it opened down the front and belted at the waist to form a natural pouch for tobacco, food, or whatever a man on the move was carrying. The cape across the shoulders was decorative — for show, not weather. The fringe along the seams and cape edge borrowed openly from the dress of eastern woodland tribes. George Washington was the garment's most consequential advocate. In a 1776 general order he wrote that the hunting shirt \"carries no small terror to the enemy, who think every such person a complete marksman,\" and recommended its adoption as Continental field dress. The Continental Army never fully standardized on it, but enough Virginia and southern regiments wore it through the war that the look became one of the visual signatures of the Revolution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line soldier in the standing alert position — musket at the carry, body upright and watchful — wearing the hunting shirt over white breeches, with the standard belted kit. He works as a single-figure rifleman in any Revolutionary War display, and pairs naturally with the other W. Britain Revolutionary figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/alexander-hamilton-1783\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton 1783\u003c\/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-with-national-color\"\u003e1st American Regiment Ensign \u003c\/a\u003e— for a Continental Army vignette.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16137. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779188654308,"sku":"16137","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16137Background2022ClashofEmpires_585BAAFB6BA79.jpg?v=1762537866"},{"product_id":"general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794","title":"General \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted 1794","description":"\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAnthony Wayne earned the nickname \"Mad\" during the Revolution, when his aggressive temperament made him a better tactician than strategist and an officer his men would follow into nearly anything. He fought at Brandywine, Germantown, and Monmouth, led the daring midnight bayonet assault on Stony Point in July 1779 (where he was wounded in the head and continued the attack), and ended the war commanding the Pennsylvania Line at Yorktown. He went home to Pennsylvania expecting to be done with soldiering. He wasn't. In 1792, with the new federal army humiliated by St. Clair's defeat in Ohio, President Washington appointed Wayne commander of the rebuilt Legion of the United States — partly because the two men shared an appreciation for Caesar's Gallic Wars and an aligned view of how a frontier war should be fought. Two years of training and drill later, Wayne destroyed the Northwest Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers on August 20, 1794 — the year of this figure — and forced the Treaty of Greenville that opened the Ohio Country to American settlement.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows Wayne mounted in the dress uniform of a major general of the new United States Army — dark blue coat with buff facings and gold epaulettes, buff waistcoat and breeches, bicorne hat (which had replaced the tricorne in U.S. service by the early 1790s), high black boots, mounted on a brown campaign horse with a blue saddlecloth. He pairs naturally with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\" title=\"General Washington military miniature\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e — his Continental Army commander and the President who appointed him to lead the Legion — and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/marquis-de-lafayette-1783\" title=\"Lafayette toy soldier\"\u003eMarquis de Lafayette 1783\u003c\/a\u003e for a Revolutionary-and-Federal-era command group, and sits in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\" title=\"American Revolution toy soldier collection\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection\u003c\/a\u003e alongside the other named generals Breagans carries.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single mounted figure boxed. Catalog number 16142. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779194618084,"sku":"16142","price":120.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16142Background2022ClashofEmpires_77A8950D2C5E7.jpg?v=1762537866"},{"product_id":"benjamin-franklin-american-statesman","title":"Benjamin Franklin American Statesman","description":"\u003cp\u003eBenjamin Franklin was the most consequential American of the eighteenth century who never held a head-of-state title. He was a printer, then a wealthy retired printer at forty-two, then a scientist whose lightning experiments earned him a Royal Society Copley Medal, then a diplomat who petitioned Parliament on the colonies' tax grievances and later went to France to secure the alliance that won the Revolutionary War. He helped draft and signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776 and the Constitution in 1787, and was the only Founding Father to sign all four of the foundational American documents: the Declaration, the 1778 Treaty of Alliance with France, the 1783 Treaty of Paris, and the Constitution. His best-known inventions include bifocals, the lightning rod, and the Franklin stove. As an inventor, his largest creation was arguably the United States of America.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows Franklin in the classic Founding Father dress — coat and waistcoat, knee breeches, wig, the dignified standing pose of the elder statesman that fixed his image in the period record. He pairs naturally with the other founding-era figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/alexander-hamilton-1783\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton 1783\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/thomas-jefferson-no-2\"\u003eThomas Jefferson No.2\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/marquis-de-lafayette-1783\"\u003eMarquis de Lafayette 1783\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e — for a full Founding Fathers display, and sits in the W. Britain Museum Collection of named historical individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 10114. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779198091492,"sku":"10114","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10114BackgroundFranklin_9BE30862B5D96.jpg?v=1762537874"},{"product_id":"alexander-hamilton-1783","title":"Alexander Hamilton 1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eAlexander Hamilton arrived in America from the West Indies as a poor immigrant orphan in 1772, talked his way into King's College in New York the next year, and joined the Continental Army as a young artillery captain in 1776. Two years later he was Washington's aide-de-camp — the position that made his career — and four years after that he led the assault on Redoubt 10 at Yorktown, the action that effectively ended the war. By 1783, the year of this figure, he was in his mid-twenties, just out of uniform, married into one of New York's most prominent families, and already planning the financial and political architecture he would build into the United States Treasury Department a decade later. He died young — killed in the duel with Aaron Burr in 1804 — but in twenty-five years of public life he wrote fifty-one of the Federalist Papers, founded the Bank of the United States, created the U.S. Mint and the customs service, and effectively invented the federal government's executive branch as a working institution.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows Hamilton in the dress uniform of a Continental Army staff officer of the 1780s — dark blue coat with buff facings and gold epaulettes, white waistcoat, buff breeches, black knee boots, tricorne with white plume, the red sash of officer's rank across his chest. The pose is the confident young officer, hand on hip, the staff officer rather than the man in combat. He pairs with the other founding-era figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\" title=\"Washington toy soldier\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/marquis-de-lafayette-1783\" title=\"Lafayette military miniature\"\u003eMarquis de Lafayette 1783\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/thomas-jefferson-no-2\" title=\"Jefferson toy soldier\"\u003eThomas Jefferson No.2\u003c\/a\u003e, Hamilton's lifelong political rival — and sits in the W. Britain Museum Collection of named historical individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 10060. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779207758052,"sku":"10060","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10060BackgroundMuseumCollection_B57F6EC5206CF.jpg?v=1762537883"},{"product_id":"washingtons-bodyguard-drummer","title":"Washington's Bodyguard Drummer","description":"\u003cp\u003eBefore bugles, before voice amplification, and centuries before radio, eighteenth-century armies were run by drums and fifes. A specific drumbeat or fife call ordered every action — assembly, march, halt, advance, retreat, fire, recover, recall, reveille, lights out. The drummers and fifers were posted with their commanders so the signal could be heard above the noise of the battlefield, which meant that drum and fife players were also some of the most exposed men in any infantry unit. Baron Friedrich von Steuben standardized the Continental Army's signal calls during the 1778 Valley Forge drill campaign that also standardized infantry maneuver, and by the end of the war American fife and drum corps were as drilled as any in Europe. Drummers in Washington's Bodyguard played the same signals as the rest of the army, plus a few ceremonial calls unique to the Commander-in-Chief's Guard.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a drummer of Washington's Bodyguard in the standard musician's reverse colors of the period — buff coat with blue facings rather than the blue coat with buff facings that the unit's officers and rank-and-file wore. Reversing the colors made musicians visually distinct on the field so a commander could find them quickly when signals needed sending. He wears the tall feathered mitre cap that often distinguished musicians from rank-and-file infantry, white cross-belt with cartridge box, buff breeches and white stockings. The drum itself carries one of the popular designs of the period: thirteen stars on a deep blue field, arranged in a circle (six-pointed and eight-pointed star variants were both common; the five-pointed \"mullet\" star was less favored at the time). He pairs naturally with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/washingtons-bodyguard-officer-with-spontoon\"\u003ethe Washington's Bodyguard Officer with Spontoon \u003c\/a\u003eas the same-unit complement, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e (the man both ultimately served), and the broader \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16103. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779219259620,"sku":"16103","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16103BackgroundClashofEmpires_C2CC92F23EA11.jpg?v=1762537892"},{"product_id":"general-rochambeau-1783","title":"General Rochambeau 1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eComte de Rochambeau was the professional soldier on the French side of the alliance that won the American Revolution. A career officer with thirty-eight years of service in the wars of the Austrian Succession and the Seven Years' War behind him, he was promoted to lieutenant general in 1780 and given command of the French Expeditionary Force — about 5,500 troops — sent to America to fight alongside Washington. He landed at Newport, Rhode Island in July 1780, spent a year coordinating with Washington while waiting for additional French ships and troops, then in August 1781 the combined Franco-American army marched south to Virginia. With the French fleet under de Grasse blocking Chesapeake Bay, they trapped Cornwallis at Yorktown. The siege ended on October 19, 1781 with Cornwallis's surrender — the last major land battle of the war, and the action that forced the British government to negotiate the Treaty of Paris. Rochambeau returned to France in 1783 (the year of this figure) and was made a Marshal of France in 1791.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows Rochambeau in the elaborate dress uniform of a French general officer of the late ancien régime — dark blue coat with heavy gold embroidery on the lapels, cuffs, and pocket flaps, red waistcoat and breeches with matching gold trim, the cocked hat with white plume, and the powdered wig and queue of the period. The W. Britain sculpt is unusually detailed in the gold work, appropriate for a man whose dress reflected his rank in a notably hierarchical army. He pairs naturally with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/marquis-de-lafayette-1783\"\u003eMarquis de Lafayette 1783\u003c\/a\u003e — the other half of the French command in America — and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e for a Franco-American command group depicting the Yorktown alliance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 10087. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779222012132,"sku":"10087","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10087BackgroundMuseumCollection_E6F6A57F04209.jpg?v=1762537892"},{"product_id":"continental-line-officer-standing-at-ease","title":"Continental Line Officer Standing at Ease","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Continental officer corps was an uneven body of men trying to professionalize themselves on the move. Most company captains and field officers were drawn from the yeoman gentry — town selectmen, country lawyers, merchants, propertied farmers — and most had bought their own uniforms, swords, and horses out of pocket on the promise of pay and half-pay-for-life that Congress had voted them in 1778 but could not always afford to deliver. Steuben's 1779 regulations specified facing colors by region — white for the Mid-Atlantic, red for New England, blue for the southern states, buff for Washington's personal guard — but enforcement depended on what each state's clothiers could find at market, and the officer who could afford gold lace and silver-gilt buttons often outshone his colonel. By Newburgh in March 1783, with the war effectively won and the army unpaid for the better part of two years, the officer corps had come near mutiny over the half-pay question; Washington defused the crisis with a single famous moment — pausing to put on his spectacles before reading a letter and saying, \"I have grown gray in your service, gentlemen, and now find myself going blind\" — and the assembled officers stood down. The Society of the Cincinnati they founded that May became the first hereditary fraternal order in the new republic.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a Continental officer standing at ease: left hand resting on the hilt of his sword at the left hip, right hand at his side, the posture of a man between commands. The uniform is the 1779 New England regulation with red facings — dark blue coat with red collar, red lapels turned back to show the buff waistcoat, red cuffs, and red turnbacks, gilt buttons in rows, an epaulette at each shoulder marking field rank, white breeches and stockings, black shoes with brass buckles, black neck-stock at the throat, and a black tricorne edged white. The hanger sword on its waist-belt is regulation officer issue; the absence of a spontoon places him as a field officer (major or above) rather than the company officers carrying half-pikes in the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-regiment-2\"\u003eadvancing-with-spontoon\u003c\/a\u003e figure. He commands the line whose \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-firing\"\u003estanding firing\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\"\u003estanding defending\u003c\/a\u003e figures hold the company front.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16101 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779238920420,"sku":"16101","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16101Background2022ClashofEmpires_366E2CDF07BC2.jpg?v=1762537901"},{"product_id":"washingtons-bodyguard-officer-with-spontoon","title":"Washington's Bodyguard Officer with Spontoon","description":"\u003cp\u003eWashington's Bodyguard — officially the Commander-in-Chief's Guard, often called His Excellency's Guard or the Life Guard — was raised in March 1776 to provide personal security for George Washington and to safeguard the Continental Army's papers, baggage, and pay chest. Washington selected the men himself by physical specification and character: between five-nine and five-ten in height, marksmen, sober, of unquestioned loyalty. The unit grew from about fifty men to a peak of two hundred and fifty during the worst of the war, was present at every campaign Washington commanded, and was disbanded in 1783 when the Continental Army went home. The officers of the Bodyguard wore the same blue coat with buff facings that distinguished Washington's headquarters staff, and were drawn from the most experienced men in the Continental Line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows an officer of the Bodyguard in dress uniform with his spontoon — the seven-foot polearm with a spear point and crossbar that was the symbol of infantry officer rank in eighteenth-century armies. Officers used the spontoon ceremonially and as a signaling tool: tilting the point forward signaled advance, tilting it back signaled withdrawal, and the salute with the spontoon was a recognized military courtesy. By 1779 most British officers had stopped carrying them, partly because Continental sharpshooters had been targeting men with spontoons specifically. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/washingtons-bodyguard-drummer\"\u003ethe Washington's Bodyguard Drummer \u003c\/a\u003e(the same-unit complement, in musician's reverse colors), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e (the man he protected), and the broader \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16102. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779240591588,"sku":"16102","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16102Background2022ClashofEmpires_6774824C78065.jpg?v=1762537901"},{"product_id":"marquis-de-lafayette-1783","title":"Marquis de Lafayette 1783","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Marquis de Lafayette is the figure American Revolutionary memory holds up as the pure case for the cause. A nineteen-year-old French aristocrat with a major general's commission he had effectively talked the Continental Congress into giving him, he sailed for America in 1777 against the orders of his own king and joined Washington's army at his own expense. He was wounded at Brandywine that September, organized an orderly retreat under fire, wintered with Washington at Valley Forge, sailed home to lobby Louis XVI for full French intervention, and came back with the troops and ships that made Yorktown possible. By 1783 — the year of this figure — the war was won, the Treaty of Paris was signed, and Lafayette returned to France a hero on both sides of the Atlantic. He spent the rest of his long life in and out of revolutions and revolutionary politics, returned to America in 1824 for a triumphal tour of all twenty-four states, and was eventually made a posthumous honorary citizen of the United States in 2002.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows Lafayette at twenty-six, in the dress uniform of a Continental Army major general — dark blue coat with buff facings, yellow waistcoat and breeches, the cocked hat with green plume, sash and sword. The face is young, as it should be: Yorktown was only two years before, and Lafayette would live another fifty-one. He pairs naturally with the other Revolutionary-era figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/alexander-hamilton-1783\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton 1783\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-rochambeau-1783\"\u003eGeneral Rochambeau 1783\u003c\/a\u003e — for a Franco-American command group depicting the alliance that won the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 10062. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779246981348,"sku":"10062","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10062BackgroundMuseumCollection_3A71F3DD19B5E.jpg?v=1762537909"},{"product_id":"george-washington-1780-83","title":"George Washington 1780-83","description":"\u003cp class=\"p1\"\u003eGeneral Washington stands in the field uniform of the later Revolutionary War years — buff-and-blue regimentals, cocked hat, a hand resting on the pommel of his sword. The figure captures the quiet composure of the commander who had already survived Trenton, Valley Forge, and the long retreat from New York, and who would soon accept Cornwallis's surrender at Yorktown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eW. Britains has been casting collector-grade metal figures since 1893. This Washington is part of their flagship American Revolution series, 1\/30 scale (approximately 60mm), hand-painted in matte finish by W. Britain's Chillicothe studio. The proportions, uniform detail, and restrained palette are the house style that has made W. Britain the reference standard for historical figures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eSpecs: 1\/30 scale (~60mm) | solid metal, hand-painted matte | single figure | original W. Britain packaging.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p2\"\u003eA natural centerpiece for a Revolutionary War vignette. Pair with \u003ca title=\"Hamilton\" href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/alexander-hamilton-1783\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton 1783\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca title=\"Washington\" href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-washingtons-personal-flagbearer\" title=\"Flagbearer toy soldier\"\u003eGeneral Washington's Personal Flagbearer\u003c\/a\u003e for a Continental Army command group. Popular with Revolutionary War enthusiasts, Washington collectors, and W. Britain completionists.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"p3\"\u003eModel: W. Britain 10074\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779251077348,"sku":"10074","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10074B_LRaWBackG_6772E0957DB03.jpg?v=1762537909"},{"product_id":"colonial-militia-standing-loading-musket","title":"Colonial Militia, Standing Loading Musket","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe colonial militia was the rebellion's mass: the citizen-soldier called out by his town, county, or colony for short tours close to home, drilling on muster days a few times a year and turning out in earnest only when the alarm bell rang. Massachusetts companies marched to Lexington and Concord on April 19, 1775 in whatever dress they had pulled on at dawn; New Hampshire militia under Stark blooded Burgoyne's Brunswickers at Bennington two years later; Carolina militia rode in to King's Mountain and stiffened Daniel Morgan's line at Cowpens at the end of the southern war. They served alongside — and sometimes around the edges of — the regulars of the Continental Line, kept in the field for brief enlistments, generally officered by men they had elected, and armed mostly with whatever fowling piece, trade gun, or family musket had come down from the French and Indian War.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a militiaman mid-load: musket held vertically with the butt at his right foot, the steel ramrod still in his right hand on its return stroke before sliding back into the pipes below the barrel. He wears the citizen-soldier's everyday dress — a long tan coat cut civilian-style with deep red waistcoat under it, light stockings drawn up over the knees of his breeches, plain black shoes with brass buckles, and a black tricorne — and carries a single white shoulder-belt rather than the regular's full cross-belted accoutrements. The absence of regimental trim is the point: this man owns his musket and his clothes. He drills the same ramming beat as the regular \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-regiment-standing-ramming\"\u003eContinental Line 1st American Regiment standing ramming\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/hessian-regiment-von-donop-ramming\"\u003eHessian Regiment von Donop ramming cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e on the other side of the line, and runs forward when the alarm calls in \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-in-hunting-shirt-charging\"\u003ehunting-shirt Continental order\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16095 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779256746212,"sku":"16095","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16095FrontBackground_DB28818D2A272.jpg?v=1762537918"},{"product_id":"clarks-illinois-regiment-standing-firing","title":"George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment, Standing Firing","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eVincennes was where Clark's frontier campaign turned from bluff to fight. Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton had retaken the post on December 17, 1778, with a small garrison of regulars from the 8th Foot, French Canadian militia, and Indian auxiliaries; Clark, wintering in Kaskaskia 180 miles to the west, set out to recapture it on February 6, 1779, with about 170 men. The march crossed the Wabash and Embarras bottoms in thaw flood, men wading chest-deep for miles through ice-rimmed water and cooking what they could on rafts. Clark put a young drummer boy on his drum and pushed him out ahead of the column to keep its spirits up. The Americans came in sight of Fort Sackville on the evening of February 23, paraded enough flags to suggest a regiment twice their size, and worked riflemen up to point-blank distance of the loopholes. After a night and a day of sharpshooting that punished anyone who showed at a gun port, Hamilton — already called \"the Hair-buyer\" for the bounties his Detroit office paid on American scalps — surrendered the fort on February 25.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows an Illinois Regiment soldier standing firing: musket leveled, butt at the shoulder, cheek on the stock, eye over the barrel, bayonet still fixed. He wears the regiment's regulation-style order — dark blue regimental coat with the front turned back to show the buff lining and pewter button rows, white waistcoat under the coat, white breeches and stockings, white cross-belts supporting cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, and a black tricorne pulled low. He works in concert with the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/george-rodgers-clark-illinois-reg-kneeling-firing\"\u003ekneeling firing\u003c\/a\u003e figure beside him — the standing-and-kneeling alternating ranks the regiment used to keep a fire on Fort Sackville's loopholes through the night — while the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/george-rodgers-clark-illinois-reg-kneeling\"\u003ekneeling at the ready\u003c\/a\u003e figure waits a step back in the line. He holds the same posture as the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-firing\"\u003eContinental Line standing firing\u003c\/a\u003e regular farther east, drawn from a different state's establishment but trained on the same firing-line drill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16079 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779258450148,"sku":"16079","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16079BackgroundClashofEmpires_70A40FCC53B9F.jpg?v=1762537918"},{"product_id":"george-rodgers-clark-illinois-reg-kneeling","title":"George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment, Kneeling at the Ready","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eGeorge Rogers Clark crossed the Ohio in the summer of 1778 with fewer than 175 Virginia State troops and a commission from Governor Patrick Henry to take the British posts in the Illinois country. Kaskaskia fell on the evening of July 4 — the Americans walking unopposed through the gate of the old French fort while the village slept — and Cahokia and the smaller posts came in over the following days, none of them firing a shot in defense. The French Canadian inhabitants, persuaded by Father Pierre Gibault that France and the new American republic were now allies, came over without resistance and began supplying Clark's regiment with bread and corn. When Lieutenant Governor Henry Hamilton retook Vincennes that December, Clark answered with the 180-mile winter march back across the flooded Wabash bottoms and the recapture of Fort Sackville on February 25, 1779 — the campaign that gave him the title Conqueror of the Old Northwest and the Indian-name reputation of the Long Knives.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows an Illinois Regiment soldier kneeling at the ready: musket grounded across his right knee with the muzzle slanted forward and the bayonet fixed, left hand on the forestock, eyes scanning across the line of advance. He wears the regiment's nearest approach to uniform order — a dark blue regimental coat with the white cross-belts of a state regular, white breeches and stockings, plain black shoes, and a black tricorne pulled low. A powder horn rides at the left hip in place of a regulation cartridge box, and the long Pennsylvania or Virginia rifle that the Kentucky men favored has given way here to a smoothbore musket suited to fixed-bayonet work. He waits at the ready in the line his comrades hold \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/clarks-illinois-regiment-standing-firing\"\u003estanding firing\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/george-rodgers-clark-illinois-reg-kneeling-firing\"\u003ekneeling firing\u003c\/a\u003e on either flank — the frontier-state equivalent of the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-reg-kneeling-alert\"\u003eContinental Line 1st American Regiment kneeling alert\u003c\/a\u003e holding the regular line in the same posture.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16085 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779276308708,"sku":"16085","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16085Background_0322E0341997E.jpg?v=1762537927"},{"product_id":"george-rodgers-clark-illinois-reg-kneeling-firing","title":"George Rogers Clark's Illinois Regiment, Kneeling Firing","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe strategic dividend of Clark's frontier campaign was paid out at the negotiating table in Paris four years later. The Illinois Regiment never numbered more than a few hundred men, and British forces still held Detroit, Niagara, and Michilimackinac through the war's end — but American possession of Vincennes, Kaskaskia, and Cahokia gave Franklin, Jay, and Adams a piece of ground to point at when British negotiators tried to draw the new republic's western boundary at the Appalachian crest. The 1783 Treaty of Paris ran the line instead to the Mississippi, handing the United States the Old Northwest that would become Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconsin. The Northwest Ordinance of 1787 — which organized the territory and forbade slavery within it — followed four years later, and a single twelve-month sweep through the Illinois country turned out to be the leverage that nearly doubled the new country's continental footprint.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows an Illinois Regiment soldier in the front rank of a firing line: kneeling on his right knee, musket leveled and braced across the lifted left, eye over the barrel, bayonet still fixed. The order is the regiment's regulation-style — dark blue regimental coat with the front turned back to show the buff lining and pewter buttons, white waistcoat under, white breeches and stockings on the unkneeling leg, white cross-belts supporting cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, black tricorne pulled low. He forms the front rank of the line the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/clarks-illinois-regiment-standing-firing\"\u003estanding firing\u003c\/a\u003e figure shoots over, with the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/george-rodgers-clark-illinois-reg-kneeling\"\u003ekneeling at the ready\u003c\/a\u003e figure waiting in the supporting position. Across the firing line he matches the posture of regular state troops like the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-reg-kneeling-alert\"\u003eContinental Line 1st American Regiment kneeling alert\u003c\/a\u003e, trained on the same Steuben drill that standardized the Continental line from 1779.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16080 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779294036196,"sku":"16080","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16080BackgroundClashofEmpires_7BF209CA76DE0.jpg?v=1762537927"},{"product_id":"colonial-militia-drummer-no-1","title":"Colonial Militia Drummer No.1","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe militia drum was the town's alarm bell as much as a battlefield instrument. Every Massachusetts and Connecticut town kept a drum and a fife as part of its militia stores, and the men who beat them were often local townsmen who had learned the calls in their fathers' companies — not the young apprentice-musicians attached to a standing army's regimental band. The same calls served peace and war: a drum tap on muster day at the village green, the rapid call to arms when the alarm rider came in, the slow march that brought the company up to its post. On a battlefield where shouted orders carried no further than thirty yards over the noise of musketry, drum signals could be heard at a thousand. The repertoire was small and universal: the long roll for \"form for action,\" \"To the Colours\" for rallying on the regimental flag, \"Retreat\" played in the slower march tempo for the day's end as well as for withdrawal.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a Colonial Militia drummer mid-stroke: left drumstick down on the head, right raised for the next beat, drum slung on a white rope harness at the left hip, the shell painted red wood with the rope-tensioned head white-laced in the standard pattern. He wears the militiaman's plain dress rather than a dedicated musician's regimental coat — a sage-green wool frock cut civilian-style, light waistcoat, off-white breeches, white stockings, black shoes with brass buckles, black tricorne. The contrast with a regular regiment's drummer is the point: this man's coat is whatever the town turned out in, not the \"reversed colors\" musician's coat issued from a regimental clothier. He sounds the calls for militia ranks like the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/colonial-militia-standing-loading-musket\"\u003estanding loading musket\u003c\/a\u003e figure preparing to fire in line, works the same tactical communication system as the regulars in the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-firing\"\u003eContinental Line standing firing\u003c\/a\u003e position, and beats the same calls that brought \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-in-hunting-shirt-charging\"\u003ehunting-shirt Continentals\u003c\/a\u003e to the charge when their officers signalled the advance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16089 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779421962468,"sku":"16089","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16089BackgroundClashofEmpires_37FFDB2C5DDAA.jpg?v=1762537953"},{"product_id":"colonial-militia-kneeling-firing-no-3","title":"Colonial Militia Kneeling Firing No.3","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican militia rarely fought the British in open formation; they fought from cover. The story collectors think of when they think of militia at Lexington and Concord — colonists firing from behind stone walls, fences, and the inside corners of buildings as the British column retreated — is largely accurate, and it ran the entire length of the war. Militia were called up locally, fought close to home, and used the terrain. The kneeling firing position depicted on this figure was one of the standard postures for that work: a stable shoot from cover, low silhouette, weapon supported on the knee or against a wall. Combined with the long muskets most militiamen owned, it gave a colonist behind a fence a serious advantage over a regular standing in line in the open.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a militiaman in the kneeling firing posture — left knee down, weapon shouldered, taking the shot. His dress is the deliberately practical mix that defined militia kit: dark red coat with brass buttons, off-white breeches and stockings, the wide-brimmed slouch hat that distinguishes a militia from a regular Continental. The \"No. 3\" designation indicates this is the third pose in W. Britain's Colonial Militia firing series. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-83\"\u003ethe standing-alert militiaman\u003c\/a\u003e as a complementary figure — one alert and watching, one already firing — and with the other Revolutionary figures Breagans carries for a fully populated militia-and-Continental display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16071. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779438182628,"sku":"16071","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16071BackgroundClashofEmpires_FA30BCE0BE9DE.jpg?v=1762537971"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-american-reg-kneeling-alert","title":"Continental Line\/1st American Reg. Kneeling Alert","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn eighteenth-century army on campaign lived behind a ring of sentries. Outside the camp proper, picket lines of alert infantry stood watch at fixed posts; further out, mounted vedettes patrolled the approaches; further still, occasional scouting parties ranged beyond. The infantry sentry's job was to spot the enemy and give warning, then hold his position until reinforcements arrived or he was ordered to fall back. The kneeling alert position depicted by this figure — weight low, musket horizontal with bayonet fixed, eye on the ground in front — was the standard posture for a sentry expecting trouble. He could move quickly in any direction, his musket was ready to fire or to receive a charge with the bayonet, and his low silhouette made him harder for an approaching enemy to spot. The 1779-87 dates on the figure cover the long second half of the war, when the Continental Line had become disciplined enough to hold positions properly through long, tense nights.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line soldier in the kneeling alert position — right knee down, left knee up, musket held horizontally across the body with the bayonet fixed forward, eyes scanning for movement. He wears the late-Continental uniform: blue coat with red facings, white waistcoat and cross-belts, buff breeches, the tricorne worn brim-up. The pose is the moment of watchfulness rather than action — a sentry, a flank guard, or the leftmost man in a kneeling firing rank waiting for the order to fire. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-kneeling-firing-1777-87\"\u003ea kneeling firing soldier\u003c\/a\u003e (the same posture in the act of shooting), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-soldier\"\u003ea basic Continental Line soldier\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\"\u003ea soldier in the standing defending position\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing a defensive line of alert, ready, and engaged infantry.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16086. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779439624420,"sku":"16086","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16086BackgroundFront_42A3D3CDEFEA2.jpg?v=1762537980"},{"product_id":"continental-line-with-national-color","title":"Continental Line with National Color","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1st American Regiment is the direct ancestor of the modern U.S. Army. Congress raised it in 1784 from veterans of the disbanding Continental Army, primarily for frontier service in the Ohio Country, and it has run in unbroken line of descent ever since — through the Legion of the United States, the Indian campaigns of the 1790s, and the early peacetime army — to today's 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment, the Old Guard, at Fort Myer. The 1782-90 period covered by this figure is the bridge between the war's last campaigns and the new republic's first standing army, when veterans of Yorktown were still in uniform but the Continental Army itself was being wound down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows the regimental ensign — the junior commissioned officer responsible for carrying the National Color, the Stars and Stripes flag with the original thirteen stars in a circle. In the eighteenth-century army the ensign's job was honorable, ceremonial, and exceptionally dangerous: the colors marked where the unit was, which made the bearer a target. The W. Britain sculpt has him standing at attention, flag aloft, in the dark blue coat with red facings of the late Continental and early Federal army. He pairs naturally with the other Revolutionary-era figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\" title=\"Washington Mounted toy soldier\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/alexander-hamilton-1783\" title=\"Hamilton toy soldier\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton 1783\u003c\/a\u003e, and the broader American Revolution range — for a Continental Army display.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16038. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779443589348,"sku":"16038","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16038BackgroundClashofEmpires_71EF237A039F9.jpg?v=1762537980"},{"product_id":"continental-line-ensign-with-flag-1778-84","title":"Continental Line Ensign with Flag 1778-84","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Continental Congress passed the Flag Act on June 14, 1777, specifying \"thirteen stripes alternate red and white\" and \"thirteen stars white in a blue field representing a new constellation.\" It didn't specify how to arrange the stars, so early American flags vary — some have stars in rows, some in circles, some in cluster patterns of five and eight. By 1778, the year this figure depicts, the new flag was being carried by Continental regiments in combat, replacing the earlier Grand Union flag with its British canton. The 1778-84 period covers the heart of the war's later years — Saratoga's aftermath, Valley Forge, the French alliance, Monmouth, the southern campaigns, Yorktown, and the long wait through the Treaty of Paris — and the flag this ensign carries is the original thirteen-star Stars and Stripes flown through all of it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line regimental ensign holding the colors aloft on a vertical staff topped with a spear-point finial. He wears the standard Continental infantry uniform — blue coat with red facings, white waistcoat and cross-belts, buff breeches, tricorne with white plume — distinguished only by the flag he carries and the lack of a musket (the ensign was a commissioned officer responsible for the colors, not for the firing line). The position was dangerous: regimental colors marked where the unit was, which made the bearer a target. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-reg-nco\" title=\"NCO military miniature\"\u003ethe regimental NCO\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-regiment-standing-ramming\" title=\"Revolution toy soldier\"\u003ea soldier loading at the standing-ramming position\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-reg-kneeling-alert\" title=\"Toy Soldier figurine\"\u003ea kneeling alert sentry\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing the leadership, action, and watchfulness of a Continental infantry section.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16094. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779447881956,"sku":"16094","price":64.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16094BackgroundClashofEmpires_E05BF284DEFE9.jpg?v=1762537988"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-american-reg-drummer-no-1","title":"Continental Line 1st American Regiment Drummer No.1, 1780-84","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eRegimental music was a formal establishment in the Continental Line by 1779. Each regiment carried a drum major and a fife major as senior musicians, with one drummer and one fifer per company beneath them — typically boys of ten to fourteen who had been apprenticed to the regiment's music by their fathers, often the same drum major. Steuben's \u003cem\u003eRegulations\u003c\/em\u003e set the calls and tempos every regiment was expected to play in unison: \"The General\" at three quarters before reveille, \"The Assembly\" to gather the men, \"The March\" at seventy-five paces a minute for routine movement and a hundred and twenty for the quick step. The drummer wore the regimental coat in reversed colors — coat in the facing color, facings in the coat color — and a wide pattern of drummer's lace down the sleeves and around the buttonholes that marked the musician at a hundred yards. The 1st American Regiment carried this regulation forward into its federal service after 1784, when most of the rest of the Continental Line had been mustered out.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a 1st American Regiment drummer in the regimental music order: a red regimental coat with white collar, lapels, cuffs, and turnbacks, white herringbone lace striped down the sleeves and around the buttonholes — the reversed-colors arrangement that marked the regimental musician at distance — white waistcoat, buff breeches, white stockings, black shoes with brass buckles, black tricorne pulled low. The drum hangs at his left hip on a white rope sling, the shell painted red wood with the heads roped in the standard pattern; both drumsticks ride in his right hand at the trail, between commands. He beats the calls that bring the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-regiment\"\u003e1st American Regiment standing alert\u003c\/a\u003e figure into the firing line and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-firing\"\u003estanding firing\u003c\/a\u003e figure into action — the regimental music establishment that the militia drummer's \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/colonial-militia-drummer-no-1\"\u003etown-tradition counterpart\u003c\/a\u003e could match for call but not for the formal apparatus behind it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16030 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779457843428,"sku":"16030","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16030BackgroundClashofEmpires_44B6B6D8BBD72.jpg?v=1762537988"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-american-reg-officer","title":"Continental Line\/1st American Reg. Officer","description":"\u003cp\u003eEighteenth-century infantry officers led from the front. Without radios, without runners that could be trusted to deliver complex messages under fire, the captain or lieutenant of a Continental Line company gave his orders the only way they could be reliably given — at the top of his voice, from inside or just ahead of his own firing line, where his men could see him. The pose this figure depicts — pistol raised in one hand, sword in the other, mouth open mid-order — is the working life of a company officer in combat: vocal commands, visible position, personal weapons drawn because his role might require him to use them. The pistol was generally a single-shot affair good for one close-range emergency; the sword was the primary weapon, used both ceremonially and seriously. Officers were targeted by enemy marksmen for exactly the reason they were placed in front — without them, the firing line couldn't function as a unit.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line officer in mid-command — pistol raised, sword drawn, mouth open in mid-order. He wears the late-Continental dress: blue coat with red facings, cuffs and lapels, white waistcoat and breeches, the tricorne worn brim-up, knee boots. The dress is the same as the rank-and-file but with the additions an officer carried — sword, sash, and the pistol that meant business in close quarters. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-officer-standing-at-ease\"\u003ethe Continental Line officer standing at ease\u003c\/a\u003e (the contemplative parallel to this figure's action stance), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-ensign-with-flag-1778-84\"\u003ethe Continental Line Ensign with Flag\u003c\/a\u003e (the colors his unit fights around), and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-regiment-standing-ramming\"\u003ea soldier loading at the standing-ramming position\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing the company leadership and the line itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16031. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779566272740,"sku":"16031","price":49.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16031BackgroundClashofEmpires_ACB46F419A609.jpg?v=1762538023"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-american-regiment-standing-ramming","title":"Continental Line\/1st American Regiment Standing Ramming","description":"\u003cp\u003eRamming the cartridge home was the slowest single step in the musket loading sequence and the most prone to error. After biting the cartridge open, priming the pan, and pouring the rest of the powder and ball down the barrel, the soldier had to draw the ramrod from under the musket, reverse it, push the cartridge firmly to the breech, withdraw the ramrod, and return it to its place — and do all of that without dropping the ramrod, losing his place, or letting another man's elbow knock him as he worked. A misseated cartridge could fire weakly, fire poorly, or fail to fire at all. A soldier whose ramrod was caught in the wadding when he tried to withdraw it had a useless musket until he could free it. The Continental Line trained the ramming step harder than any of the others because the consequences of getting it wrong were the worst.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line soldier in the standing ramming position — left hand on the musket holding it vertical, right hand pulled up high to draw the ramrod free before reversing it to push the next cartridge home. He wears the standard late-Continental uniform: blue coat with red facings, cuffs and lapels, white waistcoat and cross-belts, white breeches, the tricorne worn brim-up. The pose captures the slowest beat of the loading cycle — the moment when the soldier is most vulnerable, unable to fire, his weapon committed to the reload. He pairs with a \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-kneeling-firing-1777-87\"\u003ekneeling firing soldie\u003c\/a\u003er (the first rank firing while this one reloads), the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-reg-nco\"\u003eContinental Line NCO\u003c\/a\u003e (directing the rotation), and a basic \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-soldier\"\u003eContinental Line soldier\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing a complete firing-line rotation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16032. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779569320164,"sku":"16032","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16032_49DD80434DA96.jpg?v=1762538032"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-american-reg-nco","title":"Continental Line\/1st American Reg. NCO","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn eighteenth-century company was commanded by its officers but run by its sergeants. The captain or lieutenant gave the orders; the sergeants made sure the orders happened — drilling the recruits, dressing the firing line, handing out cartridges, replacing the loaders who went down, keeping discipline in camp, and teaching every new private how to load and fire by the eight-step manual exercise. The Non-Commissioned Officers were where Continental Army discipline lived in practice. In the Continental Line, sergeants were drawn from the most experienced and reliable men in the company, often promoted from corporal after years of service. They wore a red worsted sash over the right shoulder as their visible badge of rank, and many carried a halberd or short polearm — partly as a symbol of authority, partly as a practical tool for dressing the line and arranging the men by physical contact when voice orders couldn't be heard. The 1779-87 period this figure depicts is when that NCO corps was at its most professional.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line sergeant in the standing position — halberd grounded, free hand on his belt near the pistol he carries for emergency use. He wears the standard Continental late-war uniform — blue coat with red facings, white waistcoat and cross-belts, buff breeches, the tricorne worn brim-up — distinguished by the red worsted sash worn over the right shoulder, the NCO badge of office. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-soldier\"\u003ea basic Continental Line soldier\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-regiment-2\"\u003ethe 1st American Regiment variant\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\"\u003ea soldier in the standing defending position\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing a Continental infantry section under NCO leadership.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16082. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779570368740,"sku":"16082","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16082LR_97942DC24EC29.jpg?v=1762538032"},{"product_id":"continental-line-charging-no-2","title":"Continental Line Charging No.2, 1777-87","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Continental Line that took the field by 1778 looked nothing like the gentleman's army its officers would have preferred. Long enlistments, the wage scale, and bounty land had driven the officer-class volunteer of 1775 home and pulled in his place the men with the fewest other options: tenant farmers and farm sons from the New England hill towns, Irish indentured servants who had taken bounty for their freedom, German-speaking recruits from Pennsylvania and the Mohawk Valley, free Black men and the manumitted enslaved who served in mixed companies and — in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment from 1778 — in a battalion of their own. This was the army Washington asked Congress for from Valley Forge: not a militia called out on alarm but a long-service standing line, drilled by Steuben on the Prussian model and dressed by 1779 in the regulation blue coat with regional facings.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a Continental in mid-stride at the charge: dark blue regimental coat with red collar, lapels, and cuffs and red turnbacks at the skirt, white cross-belts supporting the cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, buff waistcoat and breeches, white gaiter-trousers, black shoes, and a black tricorne. The musket is carried at the charge with bayonet fixed and leveled, and the open mouth places the moment somewhere between an officer's command and a man's own battle cry. He is the regulation-order match to the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-in-hunting-shirt-charging\"\u003ehunting-shirt Charging No.1\u003c\/a\u003e — the two figures form a paired set showing the same regiment in either dress, depending on what the supply train had managed to bring up that month. He supports the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\"\u003estanding defending\u003c\/a\u003e figure holding ground behind him, and runs against the line of Crown regulars like the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/british-43rd-regiment-of-foot-defending\"\u003eBritish 43rd Foot defending\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16052 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779578757348,"sku":"16052","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16052BackgroundClashofEmpires_975A70309E4CB.jpg?v=1762538040"},{"product_id":"thomas-jefferson-no-2","title":"Thomas Jefferson No.2","description":"\u003cp\u003eThomas Jefferson is a figure American history struggles to summarize. The principal author of the Declaration of Independence at thirty-three, he served as Governor of Virginia, Minister to France, the first Secretary of State, the second Vice President, and the third President. From 1801 to 1809 he doubled the country with the Louisiana Purchase, sent Lewis and Clark to map what he had bought, and laid the groundwork for the University of Virginia after he left office. He designed Monticello, kept up a serious correspondence on architecture, agriculture, archaeology, and natural history, and died at Monticello on July 4, 1826 — the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration, the same day John Adams died at Quincy. Almost everything about him was contested in his own time and remains contested now; the achievements and the contradictions are both unmistakably his.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure is W. Britain's second Jefferson sculpt — the \"No. 2\" designation indicates a variation on the earlier release. He's depicted in a sky-blue frock coat over a red waistcoat, with the cocked hat and walking stick of a gentleman of the period, hand on hip in a relaxed pose. The blue coat is a distinctive choice that makes the figure stand out alongside the more common dark-coated portrayals of period statesmen. He pairs naturally with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/alexander-hamilton-1783\" title=\"Hamilton military miniature\"\u003eAlexander Hamilton 1783\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-george-washington-mounted\" title=\"Washington Mounted toy soldier\"\u003eGeneral Washington Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e for a Founding Fathers display, and sits in the W. Britain Museum Collection alongside the other named historical individuals.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 10061. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779580559588,"sku":"10061","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/10061_in_enviroment_D31A836CBAF83.jpg?v=1762538040"},{"product_id":"washingtons-bodyguard-at-support-arms","title":"Washington's Bodyguard at Support Arms","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Commander-in-Chief's Guard had been Washington's personal bodyguard for less than three months when Thomas Hickey — an Irish-born Continental transferred to the unit from a Connecticut regiment — was court-martialed in New York for plotting his commander's death. The evidence had come up by accident: a counterfeiter named Isaac Ketchum, picked up on unrelated charges, heard two cellmates from the Guard boast that they were paid agents of New York's Loyalist mayor David Mathews to spike Washington's cannon or kidnap him outright when the British fleet arrived. Hickey was tried for mutiny, sedition, and treasonable correspondence on June 26, 1776; convicted; and hanged on the morning of June 28 before twenty thousand spectators on the Bowery — the first American soldier executed by court-martial in the Revolution. The episode underscored why the Guard's recruiting standards had been tightened almost on the day they began. From then on the unit accepted only married men of \"real character,\" native-born, at least five feet ten inches tall, recommended by their existing officers, and screened personally by Washington's aides. The stand at support arms in this figure is the parade-ground stance the screened recruits had to hold at the entrance of headquarters at all hours.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a Commander-in-Chief's Guardsman at support arms — musket held vertically against the right shoulder, butt at the right hand, bayonet fixed and pointing up — the formal sentry position kept at Washington's quarters and at the army's strongbox. The order is the Guard's regulation dress in Washington's personal facings: dark blue coat with buff lapels, collar, cuffs, and turnbacks, gilt buttons in pairs, red waistcoat under the coat, buff breeches, white stockings, black shoes with brass buckles, and the distinctive black light-infantry-pattern cap with brass front plate and a small plume rather than the line tricorne. He stands with the Guard's \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/washingtons-bodyguard-officer-with-spontoon\"\u003eofficer carrying a spontoon\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/washingtons-bodyguard-drummer\"\u003eGuard drummer beating the calls\u003c\/a\u003e — three figures that together form the small permanent detail Washington kept at headquarters wherever the army moved.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16053 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779585802468,"sku":"16053","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16053LR_1E434B33F058D.jpg?v=1762538049"},{"product_id":"43rd-regiment-of-foot-grenadier-nco-marching","title":"43rd Regiment of Foot Grenadier NCO Marching, 1780","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe British sergeant in the 1770s was the steady center of his company — typically a fifteen-year veteran by the time he reached the rank, drawn from the better-conducted corporals, paid roughly twice the private's shilling, and responsible for drilling the new draft, dressing the line in action, and bringing the dead and wounded off the field after it. Where the line officers came in from the gentry on commissions purchased from London, the sergeant rose from the ranks on the strength of conduct and competence alone, and the company's working day belonged largely to him. The grenadier company sergeant was further-selected from this body: chosen by his captain for size, steadiness, and reliability, set in front of the regiment's tallest and strongest men, and expected to carry the right of the line through whatever the day brought. By 1780 the British army had begun phasing the sergeant's halberd out in favor of the musket carried under the regulation infantry drill, and this figure shows the field-service mid-point of that transition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a 43rd Foot grenadier sergeant at the march — musket carried on the right shoulder, lock plate forward, the rest of his sergeant's regalia in clear view. The order is the post-1768 grenadier company uniform with the NCO's additions: tall black bearskin cap with brass front plate, red regimental coat with the 43rd's white facings (collar, lapels, cuffs, and turnbacks) and the regimental lace at the buttonholes, white waistcoat, white breeches, black tall gaiters fastened above the knee, white cross-belts. The crimson silk sash worn around the waist marks him as a sergeant, the short hanger sword hung at the left hip is the NCO's regulation side-arm, and the flank-company wings at the shoulders set him apart from the battalion-company NCOs. He marches at the head of the grenadier company alongside the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/43rd-regiment-of-foot-grenadier-marching\"\u003egrenadier ranker\u003c\/a\u003e, and counterparts the line-company NCOs like the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/sergeant-with-halberd\"\u003e43rd Foot sergeant with halberd\u003c\/a\u003e — two figures showing the regiment's NCO ranks in mid-transition from the parade-ground halberd to the field-service musket.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16122 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779588522212,"sku":"16122","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16122BackgroundClashofEmpires_45398B1AF93F5.jpg?v=1762538049"},{"product_id":"43rd-regiment-of-foot-grenadier-marching","title":"43rd Regiment of Foot Grenadier Marching, 1780","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe 43rd Foot's grenadier company landed at Long Wharf in Boston in 1774, and on the afternoon of June 17, 1775 it took its place on the right of the composite grenadier battalion that General William Howe sent up the eastern slope of Breed's Hill against the rebel works on Bunker Hill. The grenadier battalions were the British army's strongest assault troops — every line regiment's tallest and steadiest men, drawn out of their parent units to form flying battalions under brigade command — and they led the first two assaults that the Massachusetts and Connecticut militiamen broke up with point-blank fire from the rail fence and the redoubt. The third attempt, made with bayonets only after the rebel powder failed, finally carried the position. Major John Pitcairn, who had also fired the first official shot at Lexington Green ten weeks before, fell at the foot of the redoubt as the grenadiers went over the parapet. British casualties in the four-hour fight came to 1,054 men — roughly forty percent of the assault force, the heaviest losses the British army would suffer in a single action of the war.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a 43rd Foot grenadier at the march in regulation dress — musket held vertically against the right shoulder, butt in the hand, bayonet fixed and pointing up. The order is the post-1768 grenadier company uniform: tall black bearskin cap with brass front plate carrying the regimental device and the King's cypher, red regimental coat with the 43rd's white facings (collar, lapels, cuffs, and turnbacks) and the regimental lace at the buttonholes, white waistcoat under, white breeches drawn over the knee, black tall gaiters fastened above the knee, white cross-belts supporting the cartridge box and bayonet scabbard. The flank-company wings at the shoulders and the brass mitre plate mark him as a grenadier rather than a battalion man — the elite of the regiment's right flank. He marches alongside his fellow grenadier the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/43rd-regiment-of-foot-grenadier-nco-marching\"\u003e43rd Foot grenadier NCO\u003c\/a\u003e, and forms up with the line-company men in the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/43rd-regiment-of-foot-battalion\"\u003e43rd Foot battalion company marching\u003c\/a\u003e — three figures showing the regiment's flank and battalion companies in the same column of march.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16120 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43779594453220,"sku":"16120","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/16120BackgroundClashofEmpires_CEF94A84ABD10.jpg?v=1762538058"},{"product_id":"officer-down-legion-of-the-united-states","title":"\"Officer Down!\" Legion of the United States","description":"\u003cp\u003eWhen an infantry officer was hit in eighteenth-century combat — and infantry officers were hit at disproportionate rates, because their distinctive uniforms and forward position made them visible — the question of what happened next mattered more than the casualty itself. A well-drilled company didn't disintegrate when its captain went down; the senior sergeant or the next-ranking officer stepped forward, the lines closed, and the men kept firing or kept moving. A poorly-drilled company lost its officer and lost its formation in the same minute. Wayne's two years of training at Legionville had been aimed precisely at the difference. By 1794 the Legion of the United States could absorb officer casualties without breaking, which mattered at Fallen Timbers — where multiple officers were hit during the bayonet charge — and which became the institutional culture of the U.S. Army after the Legion was reorganized into the regular regiments in 1796.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis two-figure set captures the moment exactly: a wounded Legion infantry officer fallen on his back, sword and hat thrown to the ground beside him, his uniform — the blue coat with red facings and gold officer's trim he had earned and paid for — already showing the dust of the engagement. Above him, a Legion enlisted man kneels with his arm extended, shouting at the closing enemy or calling for help. Both figures are in 1st Sub-Legion uniform, mounted on a single integrated scenic base. The set is a narrative piece rather than a parade figure: it asks the viewer to imagine the next moment, not to admire the current one. It pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e (the commander whose battle this was), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-4\"\u003eLegion infantryman casualty\u003c\/a\u003e (a companion piece depicting an enlisted soldier hit), and the broader \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection\u003c\/a\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, two-figure set on integrated scenic base, boxed. Catalog number 16141. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Breagans","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965755752676,"sku":"16141","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16141Background2022ClashofEmpires_C99822AB90166.jpg?v=1762542533"},{"product_id":"legion-of-the-united-states-infantry-officer-advancing","title":"Legion of the United States Infantry Officer Advancing","description":"\u003cp\u003eAmerican military officers in the 1790s bought their own uniforms. Federal regulations specified the general pattern — blue coat, red facings, particular cut and trim — but the actual making of the coat was up to the officer, who paid a tailor in his own town or a fashionable cutter in Philadelphia or New York. The result was that two officers of the same rank might wear visibly different garments, both within regulations: one in heavier wool with simple lace, another in finer broadcloth with elaborate embroidery, depending on what the officer could afford and what was currently fashionable. The Legion of the United States, formed in 1792, served as Wayne trained it — and many of the captains and lieutenants had been Continental Army veterans who brought their old Continental coats forward, modified to the new regulations. By 1794, the year of this figure, the Legion officer corps was a mix of Revolutionary War veterans and new young officers commissioned from civilian life.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Legion infantry officer in the moment of advance — body angled forward, sword extended in the direction of attack. He wears the dress uniform of the period: blue coat with red facings and cuffs, red waistcoat, white cross-belts, the red silk sash around his waist, white breeches and high black boots, and the bicorne hat that had largely replaced the tricorne for officers by the early 1790s. His sword is the typical 1790s officer's pattern — likely a European-made blade (German blades and English or French fittings were common imports) with the gilded hilt that distinguished officers' weapons from enlisted men's hangers. Belt plates and buttons were silver for infantry, gold for artillery. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e (his commander), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-3\"\u003ethe Legion infantryman standing firing\u003c\/a\u003e (one of his men), and the broader \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era collection.\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16138. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965780459748,"sku":"16138","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16138Background2022ClashofEmpires_D4A21E2818598.jpg?v=1762542543"},{"product_id":"legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion","title":"Legion of the United States (Wayne's Legion)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Legion of the United States was organized into four sub-legions, each of about 1,300 men and each a complete combined-arms force on its own: a battalion of infantry, a battalion of riflemen, a troop of dragoons, and a company of artillery. To distinguish the four sub-legions in the field, Wayne issued orders in September 1792 specifying the cap decorations for each: white woolen binding and white feather plumes with black hair across the crown for the 1st Sub-Legion (depicted by this figure), red for the 2nd, yellow for the 3rd, green for the 4th. The early caps were modified cocked hats with the front turned up; by 1794 these had been replaced with the more modern round hats with the same color codes carried in bearskin roaches running front-to-back across the crown. The sub-legion system was a small-scale experiment in combined-arms organization that anticipated by half a century the modern regimental combat team.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a 1st Sub-Legion infantryman advancing across rough terrain while reloading his musket — stepping over a fallen log on the integrated scenic base, right hand reaching to the cartridge box at his hip for the next round. The pose captures one of the harder things infantry asked of a soldier in 1794: keep moving forward while preparing the next shot. He wears the 1st Sub-Legion uniform: blue coat with red facings, red waistcoat, white breeches, the modified cocked hat with white woolen binding and the black hair roach that distinguished his sub-legion from the other three. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e (the commander he served under), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-3\"\u003ethe Legion infantryman standing firing\u003c\/a\u003e, and [\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-infantry-officer-advancing\"\u003ethe Legion infantry officer advancing\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing a Sub-Legion firing line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure on integrated scenic base, boxed. Catalog number 16112. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965786521828,"sku":"16112","price":52.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16112Background2022ClashofEmpires_1DED82212E989.jpg?v=1762542543"},{"product_id":"legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-1","title":"Legion of the United States (Wayne's Legion)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe 1791 U.S. Army manual of arms specified the musket loading sequence in eight numbered motions. From \"Handle cartridge,\" the soldier reached to the cartridge box at his right hip and took out a paper cartridge containing powder and ball; \"Tear cartridge,\" he bit the paper open and held the ball in his teeth; \"Prime,\" he poured a small amount of powder into the firing pan; \"Shut pan,\" closed the frizzen; \"Charge with cartridge,\" poured the rest of the powder down the muzzle followed by the paper and ball; \"Draw ramrod,\" pulled the ramrod from under the barrel; \"Ram down cartridge,\" rammed everything firmly to the breech; \"Return ramrod,\" replaced it under the barrel. The musket was then ready to shoulder and fire. A trained Legionnaire could complete the cycle in twenty to thirty seconds. Doing it while marching forward — like the figure depicted here — added a layer of difficulty that explains why Wayne's two years of drill at Legionville mattered.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows the moment in the eight-step cycle when the soldier has charged the musket and is preparing to ram the cartridge down — body still moving forward at a walking pace, musket held horizontally across the chest, the bayonet on the muzzle giving the weapon its readiness even mid-loading. He wears the 1st Sub-Legion uniform: blue coat with red facings, white cross-belts with cartridge box, white breeches showing the dirt of campaigning, the modified cocked hat with white binding and black hair roach. He pairs with the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion\"\u003eLegion infantryman reaching for a cartridge\u003c\/a\u003e (an earlier stage in the same loading cycle), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-infantry-officer-advancing\"\u003eLegion infantry officer advancing\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing the firing-line cycle Wayne drilled into his men.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16119. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965914382564,"sku":"16119","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16119Background2022ClashofEmpires_9478FE9569799.jpg?v=1762542562"},{"product_id":"legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-2","title":"Legion of the United States (Wayne's Legion)","description":"\u003cp\u003eHenry Knox, the Secretary of War, drew on Roman military structure when he wrote the legislation that created the Legion of the United States in 1792. The reference was not stylistic. The classical Roman legion was a self-contained combined-arms force — heavy infantry, light infantry, cavalry, and engineers — organized to operate independently across long distances and unfriendly terrain. The new American republic faced a similar problem on its western frontier: large distances, hostile forces, no nearby reinforcements, and an army that needed to be self-sufficient. Knox's Legion was organized along the same principles, with four \"sub-legions\" that each combined infantry, riflemen, dragoons, and artillery. Wayne built and trained that force over two years, and at Fallen Timbers in 1794 it proved the theory in practice. The name and the structure both disappeared in 1796 when the Legion was reorganized into more conventional regiments, but the idea — combined-arms infantry units operating independently — quietly re-emerged in American military doctrine over and over again in the centuries that followed.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Legion infantryman in mid-run — body angled forward in the running carry, musket held with bayonet fixed at chest level so the weapon doesn't tangle in his legs. He wears the standard Legion uniform of the 1st Sub-Legion: blue coat with red facings, white cross-belts with cartridge box, white breeches showing the wear of campaigning, the modified cocked hat with white binding and black hair roach. The pose reflects the speed Wayne demanded of his infantry on the move — drilled until soldiers could cover ground faster than enemy expectations, both on the march and in the closing rush of an attack. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-5\"\u003eLegion infantryman running No.2\u003c\/a\u003e (the companion running figure), and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-infantry-officer-advancing\"\u003eLegion infantry officer advancing\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing the moving line of a Sub-Legion in advance.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16109. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965916709092,"sku":"16109","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16109Background2022ClashofEmpires_7933253BBBD3F.jpg?v=1762542562"},{"product_id":"legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-3","title":"Legion of the United States (Wayne's Legion)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter St. Clair's Defeat in November 1791 — the worst single defeat the U.S. Army has ever suffered, where almost a thousand soldiers were killed in a single morning by Native warriors of the Northwest Confederacy — Congress recognized that the army it had wasn't going to do the job and built a new one. In March 1792 Congress authorized the Legion of the United States: four \"sub-legions\" of roughly thirteen hundred men each, combining dragoons, artillery, infantry, and riflemen in a single combined-arms formation. Anthony Wayne was given command and spent two years drilling and equipping the force at Legionville in western Pennsylvania and later at Fort Washington in Ohio. In August 1794 the Legion destroyed the Northwest Confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers, the action this figure's 1794 dating commemorates. The Legion existed only until 1796, when it was reorganized into the regular U.S. Army infantry, dragoon, and artillery regiments — but the discipline and the institutional culture Wayne built into it became the foundation of the new army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Legion infantryman in the standing firing position — musket shouldered, bayonet fixed, aiming forward. The fixed bayonet is in character: Wayne insisted that his infantry train constantly with bayonets and carry them fixed in action, a reaction to St. Clair's force which had failed to use the bayonet aggressively in 1791. The dress is the early Federal-era U.S. Army uniform: blue coat with red facings, white waistcoat and trousers, cartridge box on a wide waist belt, and the distinctive round hat that was replacing the tricorne in U.S. service by the early 1790s. The musket is a Charleville-pattern French smoothbore. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted, 1794 \u003c\/a\u003e— his commander — and sits in the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era \u003c\/a\u003ecollection\u003cspan style=\"font-family: -apple-system, BlinkMacSystemFont, 'San Francisco', 'Segoe UI', Roboto, 'Helvetica Neue', sans-serif; font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003e alongside other Legion-era figures.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16111. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965917626596,"sku":"16111","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16111Background2022ClashofEmpires_EAD43117CAFC3.jpg?v=1762542571"},{"product_id":"legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-4","title":"Legion of the United States (Wayne's Legion)","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Battle of Fallen Timbers was a relatively short action — perhaps ninety minutes of close combat — but the Legion of the United States paid a real price for the victory. Wayne's force lost thirty-three men killed and about a hundred wounded; the Northwest Confederacy suffered roughly twice that, with most of their casualties incurred during the rout that followed the breaking of their line. The broader Northwest Indian War, of which Fallen Timbers was the decisive engagement, had been running since 1785 and had cost the U.S. Army more soldiers than any conflict between the Revolution and the War of 1812. This figure depicts what those casualty numbers actually looked like at the individual level: a single Legionnaire hit at the moment of contact, his body falling back, hat tumbling off, musket dropping from his grasp.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows the moment of impact rather than the long aftermath — a Legion infantryman in mid-fall, arms thrown back, mouth open in a shout of pain or shock, hat coming off, musket dropped on the ground beside him. He wears the standard Legion uniform: blue coat with red facings, white cross-belts and cartridge box, white breeches, the cocked hat that the figure's pose has just dislodged. The integrated scenic base places him on natural terrain — grass and small vegetation — rather than a clean parade-ground surface, consistent with the wooded Maumee River ground where Fallen Timbers was fought. He pairs naturally with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-5\"\u003ethe Legion infantryman running in the charge\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-infantry-officer-advancing\"\u003ethe Legion infantry officer advancing\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing the full arc of a Sub-Legion attack: officer leading, infantry charging, one man down.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure on integrated scenic base, boxed. Catalog number 16118. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965920411876,"sku":"16118","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16118Background2022ClashofEmpires_FAD740E1E6FCA.jpg?v=1762542571"},{"product_id":"legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion-5","title":"Legion of the United States (Wayne's Legion)","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt Fallen Timbers on the morning of August 20, 1794, the Legion of the United States found its enemy by accident. Wayne's force of about three thousand Legionnaires plus a thousand mounted Kentucky volunteers was advancing through dense timber along the Maumee River when the lead elements ran into the Confederacy's prepared positions — the trees that gave the battle its name had been blown down by a recent storm, creating a natural breastwork that the Native warriors had occupied. The Legion went forward at the run. Wayne ordered an immediate charge with the bayonet, dragoons to flank the position, and the riflemen to drive the warriors out of the tangled timber. The action lasted barely forty minutes; the Confederacy broke and ran. Within a year, the Treaty of Greenville had opened the Ohio Country to American settlement. This figure depicts a Legion infantryman in the moment of the charge — running forward with musket carried for close work, shouting as he advances.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Legion infantryman in mid-charge — body angled forward, musket carried horizontally for close work, mouth open in a shout. He wears the standard Legion uniform: blue coat with red facings, cuffs and lapels, red waistcoat, white breeches, white cross-belts with cartridge box, the modified cocked hat with white binding and black hair roach of the 1st Sub-Legion. The pose captures the moment of the bayonet charge — the action Wayne ordered at Fallen Timbers, when discipline gave way to speed and the line ran rather than walked into contact. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/general-mad-anthony-wayne-mounted-1794\"\u003eGeneral \"Mad\" Anthony Wayne Mounted\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion\"\u003ethe Legion infantryman advancing and loading\u003c\/a\u003e, and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-infantry-officer-advancing\"\u003ethe Legion infantry officer advancing\u003c\/a\u003e — together composing a Sub-Legion in the bayonet charge.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16110. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43965923098852,"sku":"16110","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16110Background2022ClashofEmpires_EE37D745F2ADA.jpg?v=1762542581"},{"product_id":"continental-line-in-hunting-shirt-charging","title":"Continental Line in Hunting Shirt, Charging No.1","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe hunting shirt was Washington's deliberate sleight of hand. With Continental regiments arriving in 1775 and 1776 in whatever dress their states could provide and no national uniform yet to call regulation, the Commander-in-Chief recommended the long fringed pullover for general adoption in the summer of 1776: \"It is a Dress justly supposed to carry no small terror to the Enemy,\" he wrote, \"who think every such person a complete Marksman\" — playing on the reputation of the Pennsylvania and Virginia riflemen whose Long Rifles could reach a man at three hundred yards. The shirt was also cheap, durable, and could be made at home from local linen. Southern, frontier, and light-infantry units carried it as their standard dress, and northern line regiments slipped it on for campaign work when regulation coats were thin on the ground or worn out in the field.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe W. Britain figure shows a Continental in mid-stride at the charge: fringed off-white hunting shirt belted at the waist, brown linen breeches and gaiter-trousers, black tricorne pulled low, bayonet fixed and musket carried at the level. The hunting-shirt fringe along the shoulders and skirt catches the running motion, and the front teeth show in a shout that places the moment somewhere between alarm and battle cry. He pairs directly with the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-charging-no-2\"\u003eCharging No.2\u003c\/a\u003e pose moving into the same enemy line, supports the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\"\u003estanding defending\u003c\/a\u003e figure holding ground behind him, and runs against musketeers like the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/hessian-regiment-von-donop\"\u003eHessian Regiment von Donop standing firing\u003c\/a\u003e the charge was meant to overrun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16067 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43973180391652,"sku":"16067","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16067LRBackground_AB5268667D1AF.jpg?v=1762543048"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-american-regiment","title":"Continental Line\/1st American Regiment Standing Alert, 1779-87","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe 1st American Regiment was the army that remained when the Continental Line went home. After Yorktown the Continental establishment shrank by the month, and by June 1784 Congress had discharged all but eighty men of Washington's wartime force; what they kept was a single regiment of seven hundred to be raised from the New England and Pennsylvania lines for federal service. Lieutenant Colonel Josiah Harmar took command, headquartered at Fort McIntosh on the Ohio, and the regiment spent the rest of the decade on the western frontier — building Fort Pitt, Fort Harmar, and Fort Washington at present-day Cincinnati, escorting surveyors, and dealing with squatters on lands the Treaty of Fort Stanwix had transferred to the United States. When the Northwest Indian War opened against the Western Confederacy under Little Turtle and Blue Jacket, the 1st American Regiment marched out at the head of Harmar's column in 1790 and St. Clair's in 1791 — the two disastrous campaigns that prompted Washington and Knox to reorganize the army as Wayne's Legion of the United States in 1792. The line of descent ran on from there: the modern 3rd U.S. Infantry Regiment — the Old Guard — carries the 1st American Regiment as the senior unit of its lineage.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a 1st American Regiment private on alert: musket held across the body at the trail position, butt at the right hip, lock plate forward, eyes scanning. The order is the late-Continental regulation worn by the regiment in its early years on the Ohio frontier — dark blue coat with red collar, lapels, cuffs, and turnbacks (the New England facing color carried over from wartime), red waistcoat under the coat, white cross-belts supporting cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, buff breeches and overalls gaitered to the shoe, black tricorne. He stands in company line with the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-firing\"\u003estanding firing\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\"\u003estanding defending\u003c\/a\u003e figures, and his direct successor — Anthony Wayne's reorganized federal infantry — appears in the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/legion-of-the-united-states-wayne-s-legion\"\u003eLegion of the United States advancing-loading\u003c\/a\u003e figures of 1794, only seven years later in the same line of descent.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16084 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43973181735140,"sku":"16084","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16084LR_7020FF5AA0F1B.jpg?v=1762543058"},{"product_id":"continental-line-standing-defending","title":"Continental Line Standing Defending No. 2 1777-87","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Continental's ability to stand and receive a British charge was Baron von Steuben's gift to the army. The Prussian veteran arrived at Valley Forge in February 1778 with letters from Franklin and Beaumarchais, took the army's worst-drilled regiments in hand, and wrote out a simplified manual of arms in French overnight for translation to the men. He drilled them through the spring on the parade ground beyond Mount Joy, working with a model company of one hundred men whom the rest of the army watched and then copied. The fruit came at Monmouth Court House on June 28, 1778, where Continental brigades — re-formed by Washington after Charles Lee's misordered retreat — stood up to a British counter-attack in the worst heat of the season and held their ground until evening. Steuben's \u003cem\u003eRegulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States\u003c\/em\u003e, printed in 1779, became the first American military manual and stayed in service through the War of 1812.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a Continental holding the line in the position of \"make ready\" — musket carried across the body with the butt at the right hip and the lock plate to the front, bayonet fixed and angled forward over the left shoulder, eyes scanning across the line of approach. The order is the 1779 regulation with New England red facings: dark blue regimental coat with red collar, lapels, cuffs, and turnbacks, red waistcoat under the coat, white cross-belts supporting the cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, buff breeches with white gaiters, black tricorne pulled low. He holds the ground the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-charging-no-2\"\u003eCharging No.2\u003c\/a\u003e figure is running across and that the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-firing\"\u003estanding firing\u003c\/a\u003e figure shoots over — the three together form the action set of a Continental firing line in 1779 order. Across the field he matches the receiving posture of the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/british-43rd-regiment-of-foot-defending\"\u003eBritish 43rd Foot defending\u003c\/a\u003e trained on the same Frederick-derived drill.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16051 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43973183111396,"sku":"16051","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16051Background2022ClashofEmpires_15F4DEEE7C608.jpg?v=1762543058"},{"product_id":"continental-line-kneeling-firing-1777-87","title":"Continental Line Kneeling Firing 1777-87","description":"\u003cp\u003eAt Valley Forge in the winter of 1777-78, Friedrich Wilhelm von Steuben — a Prussian volunteer claiming a noble title and a general's rank he didn't quite have — taught the Continental Army to drill the way the European regulars drilled. Until then, American infantry could fight bravely but couldn't reliably manoeuvre under fire. After Von Steuben's six-month winter campaign of bayonet drill, marching, and the loading and firing sequence at three ranks deep, they could. The 1777-87 period covered by this figure begins at that turning point and runs through Yorktown, the war's end, and the early peacetime army. By the time of Yorktown in 1781, the Continental Line was infantry the British regulars treated as equals — a transformation worth remembering, since the army that came out of Valley Forge looked nothing like the army that went in.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line soldier in the kneeling firing position — the front-rank posture in the three-deep firing formation Von Steuben drilled into the army. He wears the late-Continental uniform: blue coat with red facings, cuffs and lapels, white waistcoat and breeches, the tricorne worn brim-up, white cross-belts with cartridge box and bayonet sheath. The musket is the standard Continental smoothbore — likely a Charleville variant, since American Springfield production didn't take over until the 1790s. He pairs with the other Continental Line figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-standing-firing\" title=\"Military miniature\"\u003ethe standing firing soldier\u003c\/a\u003e (the kneeling man's second-rank counterpart in the same firing line), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-officer-standing-at-ease\"\u003ethe officer standing at ease \u003c\/a\u003e(the commander of that firing line), and \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-charging-no-2\" title=\"Military miniature\"\u003ethe charging soldier\u003c\/a\u003e — for a complete fire-and-maneuver composition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16061. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43973184192740,"sku":"16061","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16061Background2022ClashofEmpires_D4320F36CAFFD.jpg?v=1762543068"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-americacontinental-line","title":"Continental Line\/1st American Continental Line","description":"\u003cp\u003eThe Continental Army tried to standardize its uniforms three times. In 1779, Washington ordered blue coats faced with regional facing colors — white for New England regiments, red for the Mid-Atlantic, blue (with red lining) for the southern regiments, with musicians wearing the colors reversed. The order was honored where supplies allowed and improvised where they didn't. In 1782 the army simplified by making blue with red facings the standard for the whole Continental Line, regardless of regional origin. By 1787, when the army had been reduced to a single regiment in peacetime, new coats began appearing with a small standing collar instead of the old falling collar, and the regulation Continental uniform began evolving into what would become the early Federal-era U.S. Army dress. The 1777-87 period this figure depicts covers all three regulations and the long slow transition between them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line soldier in the charging position — body leaning forward, musket forward with bayonet fixed, in mid-stride at the moment of contact. He wears the post-1782 uniform: blue coat with red facings, the tricorne worn brim-up, white waistcoat and cross-belts, buff breeches. The bayonet — eighteenth-century infantry's primary close-combat weapon — is the reason for the pose; a charging soldier at the moment depicted is no longer firing his musket, he's closing to use the steel. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\" title=\"Military miniature\"\u003ea soldier in the standing defending position \u003c\/a\u003e(a natural opposite — the figure being charged), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-soldier\" title=\"Toy soldier\"\u003ea basic Continental Line soldier,\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-regiment-2\"\u003e1st American Regiment\u003c\/a\u003e variant for a Continental infantry section in action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16022. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britains","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43973184946404,"sku":"16022","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16022Background2022ClashofEmpires_A1E545782EF71.jpg?v=1762543068"},{"product_id":"continental-line-1st-american-regiment-1","title":"Continental Line\/1st American Regiment","description":"\u003cp\u003eAfter Yorktown, the Continental Army went home. By the spring of 1783 most of the regiments had been mustered out, and on December 23 of that year Washington formally surrendered his commission to Congress at Annapolis. But the new United States still had a frontier to police — the Ohio Country, the Northwest Territory, the western posts the British had agreed to vacate but were slow to leave — and Congress recognized within a year that a standing infantry force of some kind was unavoidable. In June 1784, Congress authorized the First American Regiment, the founding unit of what became the U.S. Army's continuous lineage. The 1779-87 period covered by this figure spans the last Continental Line years and the earliest years of that successor regiment, when the same men, the same blue coats with red facings, and the same Charleville muskets carried over from one army into the next.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows the soldier in the standing firing position — left foot forward, weapon shouldered, taking the shot. He wears the post-1779 Continental Line dress that carried over into the early peacetime army: blue coat with red facings, cuffs and lapels, white waistcoat, buff breeches, the tricorne worn brim-up. The Charleville musket — the standard French smoothbore that armed most of the Continental Line — is rendered in detail down to the bayonet socket and the sling. He pairs with the other Continental Line figures Breagans carries — \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-kneeling-firing-1777-87\" title=\"Toy Soldier\"\u003ethe kneeling firing soldier\u003c\/a\u003e, \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-reg-nco\" title=\"NCO Toy Soldier\"\u003ethe regimental NCO\u003c\/a\u003e, and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-ensign-with-flag-1778-84\" title=\"Regimental Flag\"\u003eensign with the regimental flag\u003c\/a\u003e — for a complete fire-line composition with leadership and colors.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16020. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43973185765604,"sku":"16020","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16020Background2022ClashofEmpires_0DEC69B33C6E9.jpg?v=1762543077"},{"product_id":"brothers-in-arms","title":"Brothers in Arms","description":"\u003cp\u003eOn the night of April 18, 1775, riders went out from Boston warning the militia in the Massachusetts countryside that a British column was on the move. Captain John Parker mustered the Lexington militia on the village common at dawn — about seventy men, mostly farmers, several pairs of brothers among them. Their assembly point was Buckman Tavern, just off the green, where they waited in the cold for word of the British advance. When the regulars finally appeared a few hours later, Parker formed his men in two ranks across the green. Outnumbered roughly ten to one, he reportedly told them: \"Stand your ground; don't fire unless fired upon, but if they mean to have a war, let it begin here.\" A shot was fired — to this day no one is sure by whom — and the British opened a volley, killing eight militiamen and wounding ten more. The militia scattered, then began to regroup. By the time the British column was returning from Concord that afternoon, those same men were waiting along the road back to Boston. The Revolution had begun.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis W. Britain set captures two such brothers in the moment of mustering — both in the practical mix of civilian and militia kit that defined a colonial company on its first day of actual war: tricorne, frock coat (one tan, one blue), waistcoat, breeches, powder horn and cartridge box, musket grounded. The two-figure presentation makes the set the natural narrative centerpiece of any Lexington or early-Revolution display. They pair with the other militia figures Breagans carries — the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-81\"\u003e1775-81 American Militiaman\u003c\/a\u003e, the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/art-of-war-american-militiaman-1775-83\" title=\"American militia man toy soldier\"\u003e1775-83 American Militiaman\u003c\/a\u003e, and the Don Troiani Major John Buttrick figure depicting the same April 19 events at Concord — and with the broader \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/collections\/american-revolution\" title=\"American Revolution toy soldiers\"\u003eAmerican Revolution \u0026amp; Federal Era\u003c\/a\u003e collection.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, two-figure set boxed. Catalog number 16144. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44091152498916,"sku":"16144","price":98.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16144BackgroundClashofEmpires_3013A4D0EC31C.jpg?v=1762545806"},{"product_id":"continental-line-standing-firing","title":"Continental Line Standing Firing No.2, 1777-87","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe musket leveled to the shoulder in this figure is almost certainly French. By 1777 the Continental Congress had contracts running through Beaumarchais's Hortalez \u0026amp; Cie front company, and the French Crown was shipping arms in huge quantity from the state armories at Charleville-Mézières, Saint-Étienne, Maubeuge, and Tulle. The most refined of the patterns coming out of those works was the Modèle 1777, a 0.69-inch smoothbore with a longer barrel and improved lock plate that the Continental Line carried as standard from late 1777 onward. American soldiers called every French musket a \"Charleville\" regardless of which armory had actually produced it, and the pattern survived the war so completely that the U.S. Model 1795 Springfield — the first arm produced at an American national armory — was a direct copy of it. Washington ordered every Continental-issued musket struck with \"U.S.\" or \"United States\" to discourage desertion-with-arms; the marked stock was the visible sign of a man enrolled on the long-service line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis W. Britain figure shows a Continental in the firing posture of Steuben's drill: musket leveled, butt at the shoulder, cheek pressed to the stock, eye over the barrel. The order is the 1779 regulation in the red-facing color of the New England line — dark blue regimental coat with red collar, lapels, cuffs, and turnbacks, red waistcoat under the coat, white cross-belts supporting cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, buff breeches and white gaiters fastened to the knee, black tricorne pulled low. He stands in the line with the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-charging-no-2\"\u003eCharging No.2\u003c\/a\u003e figure on the advance and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/continental-line-standing-defending\"\u003estanding defending\u003c\/a\u003e figure holding ground beside him. Across the field he faces the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/products\/british-43rd-reg-of-foot-standing-firing\"\u003eBritish 43rd Foot in the same posture\u003c\/a\u003e, shooting back with the Brown Bess against the Charleville at point-blank infantry range.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eModel: 16059 \/ W. Britain 1\/30 (60mm) \/ matte finish \/ 1 piece set\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. Britain","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":44202733109476,"sku":"16059","price":48.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/16059Background2022ClashofEmpires_FB95DC9FCBC8D.jpg?v=1762547194"},{"product_id":"43rd-regiment-of-foot-battalion","title":"43rd Regiment of Foot Battalion","description":"\u003cp\u003eA British line infantry battalion in 1780 was organized into ten companies: eight \"battalion companies\" that formed the centre of the firing line, and two \"flank companies\" — the grenadiers on the right and the light infantry on the left — which were elite formations of taller, more experienced men used for special tasks. The grenadier company traditionally led assaults and held positions of honour; the light infantry was the battalion's skirmish force, sent out ahead or to the flanks. The battalion companies, the eight that made up the bulk of the regiment, were where the rank and file lived: ordinary line infantrymen, drawn from across Britain, drilled to the same standard, and used in formation as the main weight of the battalion. This figure shows a man from one of those eight companies of the 43rd Foot on the march, in the long-distance carry the British called \"support.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a 43rd Foot battalion-company soldier marching in the \"support\" position — musket cradled at an angle in the bend of his left arm, stock at his left shoulder, bayonet pointing up and back. The support position was used for marches longer than a few minutes; it took the weight off the right shoulder and freed both hands for ground when needed. He wears the standard 1780 British line uniform: scarlet coat with white facings, white cross-belts, white waistcoat and breeches, black knee gaiters, tricorne with white binding. He pairs with the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/british-43rd-regiment-of-foot-company-officer\"\u003eBritish 43rd Foot Company Officer\u003c\/a\u003e (his marching commander), the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/sergeant-with-halberd\"\u003eBritish 43rd Foot Sergeant with Halberd\u003c\/a\u003e (the NCO setting the cadence), and the \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/british-43rd-regiment-of-foot\"\u003eBritish 43rd Foot Ensign with King's Colours \u003c\/a\u003e(the colours that gave the column its centre point) — together composing a battalion column on the move.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16168. As with the rest of the W. Britain modern range, the painting is photographic-quality detail intended to read well in dioramas and display cases.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"W. 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The Continental Army held onto its officer's spontoons longer, partly because they were genuinely useful — for signaling, for dressing the firing line, for the practical authority that a piece of military furniture lends a young captain or lieutenant. By the first quarter of the nineteenth century, the U.S. Army was carrying spontoons only in full dress ceremonies; by the 1830s they were gone entirely. This figure depicts the last decade of their working use in the Continental Line and the early peacetime U.S. Army.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis figure shows a Continental Line company officer in the advancing position — spontoon angled forward across his body, body in mid-stride. He wears the standard officer's dress: blue coat with red facings, red waistcoat, white breeches and stockings, the tricorne worn brim-up, white cross-belt and gilt buttons that distinguished officer's dress from enlisted men's coats. The pose suggests him leading the line forward at the moment of advance, spontoon held both to signal his position and to mark his order. He pairs with \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-officer-standing-at-ease\"\u003ethe Continental Line officer at ease\u003c\/a\u003e (the parallel resting pose), \u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-kneeling-firing-1777-87\"\u003ea kneeling firing soldier\u003c\/a\u003e (one of the men he commands), and [\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/breagans.com\/products\/continental-line-1st-american-reg-nco\"\u003ethe Continental Line NCO with halberd\u003c\/a\u003e (his sergeant, who carried a similar polearm) — together composing the company leadership and a firing-line element.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e1\/30 scale (60mm), matte-painted, single figure boxed. Catalog number 16169. As with the rest of the W. 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