{"title":"Tradition of London American Revolution","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe Tradition of London American Revolution range brings the War of Independence to life in the classic English toy soldier style — 54mm scale, gloss-painted by hand in London, in the tradition of the figures that have sat on collectors' shelves for generations.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis collection features the Continental Army and British regiments that fought from Lexington and Concord through Yorktown. British redcoats in their line formations, Washington's Continentals in buff-and-blue, and the regimental standards that defined both armies. The gloss finish captures the aesthetic of classic toy soldiers — bright uniform colors, sharply defined details, and the unmistakable heritage look that modern matte figures deliberately set aside.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAt 54mm, these figures represent the traditional collector scale of the 20th century — slightly smaller than the 1\/30 (60mm) figures produced by W. Britain and King \u0026amp; Country, and visually distinct because of the gloss finish and classic painting style. They display beautifully as a dedicated collection or alongside other gloss-painted ranges, and are especially loved by collectors who appreciate the pre-matte toy soldier tradition.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003ePopular with American Revolution enthusiasts, Anglo-American military history collectors, and anyone building a classic English-style toy soldier display.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"american-generals","title":"American Generals — Tradition of London Set 250","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eWashington could not have won the war alone, and the set captures the three Continental generals most often credited with shaping its outcome alongside him. Lafayette was nineteen when he sailed from Bordeaux in 1777 with a commission paid out of his own pocket and an unshakeable conviction that the American cause was his own; Washington adopted him as a kind of surrogate son, and the young Marquis returned the regard for the rest of his life. Nathanael Greene — Rhode Island Quaker iron-master turned self-taught strategist — became the indispensable second in command. He served as Quartermaster General through the worst of Valley Forge, took the broken southern army from Horatio Gates after Camden in 1780, and ran Cornwallis from the Carolinas to Yorktown in a sixteen-month campaign of measured fight-and-withdrawal. \"We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again,\" Greene wrote his wife from North Carolina — the strategic doctrine of the southern war in nine words. The two of them, with Washington, are the command core the set is built around.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Tradition of London set is a six-piece Continental command group, hand-cast in white metal at 54mm and finished in the gloss enamel that marks Tradition's classic toy soldier line. The five figures stand together as if at a headquarters parley: an officer at left grounds a spontoon, the half-pike that marked a company officer of the Continental Line attached as an aide; Washington stands at center in his personal buff and blue with the pale blue sash of commander-in-chief across his chest; Lafayette and Greene flank him in the blue coats and buff small-clothes of major-general's rank, each with a sword and the laced waistcoat the officers of senior rank purchased at their own expense; a fifth figure carries a map under his arm in the role of staff secretary or aide-de-camp. The camp fire accessory rests at the center of the group — the practical detail that situates the conference in a winter camp or evening halt rather than on a parade ground. The set sits naturally beside the Regal Enterprises \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/colonel-knoxs-artillery-regiment-1775\"\u003eKnox's Artillery\u003c\/a\u003e — Knox would have been a fourth senior figure in any complete Continental command tableau — and pairs with W. Britain matte figures like the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/continental-line-officer-standing-at-ease\"\u003eContinental Line officer standing at ease\u003c\/a\u003e for collectors building a full headquarters scene across manufacturers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet Number: 250 \/ Tradition of London — Soldiers for Collectors \/ 54mm scale \/ white metal \/ gloss enamel \/ 5 figures + camp fire accessory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tradition of London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43428105289956,"sku":"250","price":160.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/Toy-soldier-set-250-649a32b7.jpg?v=1762532857"},{"product_id":"british-10th-regiment-infantry","title":"British 10th Regiment Infantry — Tradition of London Set 204","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe 10th Regiment of Foot — known to the line as \"the Tenth\" and later carrying the county title of North Lincolnshire — landed at Long Wharf in Boston in 1774 to enforce the Coercive Acts that had closed the port after the Tea Party. On the night of April 18, 1775, the regiment's grenadier and light infantry companies were drawn out of barracks and across the Charles into Cambridge under Lieutenant Colonel Francis Smith, with Major John Pitcairn of the Marines as second in command. The column reached Lexington Green at dawn; the 10th Foot's light infantry fired one of the early volleys that scattered Captain Parker's minutemen and left eight Americans dead. By the time the British force had pushed on to Concord, fought the militia at the North Bridge, and turned for home, the country roads between Lexington and Boston were full of armed New England farmers, and the retreat became a running fight that cost the British 273 casualties over the day. The 10th Foot served on through the war's full northern campaign — Bunker Hill, Long Island, Brandywine, Germantown — and went home with the rest of the army after Yorktown.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Tradition of London set is an eight-piece line company of the 10th Foot, hand-cast in white metal at 54mm and finished in the gloss enamel of the classic Tradition line. The figures form a battalion-company file at the advance: a sergeant grounds his halberd at the center — the NCO's badge of rank that British line regiments carried into the American war before the musket-and-pike transition of the early 1790s — a corporal flanks him in matching dress without the halberd, and six privates form the line at the charge, bayonets leveled, in the regimental dress of 1775: red coats with the 10th Foot's bright yellow collar, lapels, and cuffs (the facing color the 1768 Royal Warrant assigned to the regiment), white waistcoats and breeches, black tall gaiters above the knee, white cross-belts supporting the cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, and black tricornes edged white. The set is the gloss-painted counterpart to the W. Britain matte battalion company figures of the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/43rd-regiment-of-foot-battalion\"\u003e43rd Foot battalion marching at support\u003c\/a\u003e and \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-43rd-reg-of-foot-standing-firing\"\u003e43rd Foot standing firing\u003c\/a\u003e — collectors building a complete redcoat brigade can mix the yellow-faced Tenth with the white-faced 43rd for two regiments on the line. It also pairs across the line with the Regal \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/minutemen\"\u003eMinutemen muster set\u003c\/a\u003e for the same April 19, 1775 morning.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet Number: 204 \/ Tradition of London — Soldiers for Collectors \/ 54mm scale \/ white metal \/ gloss enamel \/ 8 figures (1 sergeant + 1 corporal + 6 privates) \/ Hand made to order, 2-3 week delivery\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tradition of London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43428147593444,"sku":"204","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/Tradition_204.jpg?v=1762532857"},{"product_id":"british-10th-regimental-infantry-with-flags","title":"British 10th Regiment Infantry with Flags — Tradition of London Set 0202","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eEvery British line regiment carried two colours into battle, and the men who carried them stood at the center of the unit's tactical and ceremonial identity. The \u003cstrong\u003eKing's Colour\u003c\/strong\u003e was the Union flag with the regimental number and royal cypher set into its center — the symbol of the regiment's allegiance to the Crown, of George III specifically and of the British state generally. The \u003cstrong\u003eRegimental Colour\u003c\/strong\u003e was the regiment's own — its field in the facing color that the 1768 Royal Warrant had assigned (bright yellow for the 10th Foot), charged with the royal cypher, the regimental number, and the regimental devices in gold lace. The two colours were carried by the regiment's youngest commissioned officers, the ensigns, with sergeants posting halberds in close support and corporals from the flank companies forming the color guard around them. The colours served two purposes at once: a visible rallying point that a soldier could orient on through powder smoke and noise, and the regiment's honor itself, which a unit would lose only if it surrendered or was overrun. The 10th Foot carried its colours through the American war on the northern campaigns from Boston to Long Island to Philadelphia and brought them home to England intact — unlike the regiments of the armies surrendered at Saratoga in 1777 and Yorktown in 1781, whose colours stayed in American hands.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Tradition of London set is a seven-figure color party of the 10th Foot, hand-cast in white metal at 54mm and finished in the gloss enamel of the classic Tradition line. The figures stand together as the regiment's center: an officer at the front holds his drawn sword while the two ensigns carry the regiment's two colours — the King's Colour with the Union flag and royal cypher, and the Regimental Colour on the bright yellow ground that the 10th's facing color provided, charged with the royal devices in gold. The sergeant grounds his halberd in support, and two corporals flank the color party with bayonets fixed and muskets at the charge. The drummer to the right wears the regiment's reversed-colors musician's dress: yellow coat with red lapels and cuffs (yellow being the parent regiment's facing color, red the parent regiment's coat color), white herringbone lace on the sleeves, and a bearskin cap. The set extends the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-10th-regiment-infantry\"\u003e10th Foot infantry set\u003c\/a\u003e — the eight-figure line company that opens the regiment in the catalog — and the two together form a complete regimental center. For collectors building across manufacturers, the gloss-painted Tenth color party stands naturally beside the W. Britain matte \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-43rd-regiment-of-foot\"\u003e43rd Foot ensign with King's Colours\u003c\/a\u003e for a two-regiment color line.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet Number: 0202 \/ Tradition of London — Soldiers for Collectors \/ 54mm scale \/ white metal \/ gloss enamel \/ 7 figures (officer + sergeant + 2 ensigns with colours + drummer + 2 corporals)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tradition of London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43428217913572,"sku":"202","price":210.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/Tradition_202.jpg?v=1762532865"},{"product_id":"british-10th-regiment-infantry-firing","title":"British 10th Regiment Infantry Firing — Tradition of London Set 0203","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe British infantry's reputation rested on its fire discipline more than on its courage. The eighteenth-century drill divided the regiment's eight battalion companies into platoons of six to eight men each, organized so that as one platoon fired, the next was at the ready and the next was loading — a continuous overlapping volley across the front of the line that gave a well-trained battalion two or three rounds a minute from every man. General William Howe modified the standard practice for North American service from the three-rank European formation to the two-rank line, sacrificing depth for frontage and for the cleaner field of fire that two ranks gave the men in the rear. The drill was coordinated by drum tap and voice command, refined on the parade grounds at Boston and Halifax through the winter of 1775-76, and applied at Long Island in August 1776 with results that broke the Continental Army in front of the fence at the Old Stone House. A platoon volley from forty paces would put fifteen to twenty rounds into a five-yard frontage of the enemy line — and the British practice was then to fire one or two close-range volleys before the order to charge bayonets, getting in among the rebels before they could recover from the shock.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Tradition of London set is an eight-figure firing line of the 10th Foot, hand-cast in white metal at 54mm and finished in the gloss enamel of the classic Tradition line. The figures show the platoon firing in action: an officer at the front center holds his drawn sword and turns to direct the fire while seven of his line — a corporal and six privates — work the firing drill in two staggered ranks, muskets leveled in coordinated volley fire. The dress is the 10th Foot's battalion-company regulation: red coats with the bright yellow collar, lapels, and cuffs of the regiment's facing color, white waistcoats and breeches, black tall gaiters above the knee, white cross-belts supporting cartridge box and bayonet scabbard, black tricornes edged white. The set is the firing-line action figure that completes the regiment opened by the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-10th-regiment-infantry\"\u003e10th Foot infantry set\u003c\/a\u003e and the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-10th-regimental-infantry-with-flags\"\u003ecolor party with flags\u003c\/a\u003e — three sets together giving the collector the regiment's command center, ceremonial center, and combat line. Pair across manufacturers with the W. Britain matte \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/british-43rd-reg-of-foot-standing-firing\"\u003e43rd Foot standing firing\u003c\/a\u003e for two regiments in action.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet Number: 0203 \/ Tradition of London — Soldiers for Collectors \/ 54mm scale \/ white metal \/ gloss enamel \/ 8 figures (officer + corporal + 6 privates firing)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tradition of London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":43428245471460,"sku":"0203","price":200.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/products\/Tradition_203.jpg?v=1762532865"},{"product_id":"british-generals","title":"British Generals — Tradition of London Set 201","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe three generals at the center of this set carried Britain's North American war from its first major victory to its last surrender. William Howe took Bunker Hill at appalling cost in June 1775, ran Washington out of New York in 1776, and won Brandywine and Germantown in 1777 — and twice declined to press his advantage when the Continental Army stood broken in front of him. John \"Gentleman Johnny\" Burgoyne — playwright, gambler, parliamentarian — marched south from Canada in the summer of 1777 with an army of British, German, and Indian troops, overstretched his supply line in the Hudson Valley wilderness, and surrendered to Horatio Gates at Saratoga that October. His was the surrender that brought France into the war on the American side. Charles Cornwallis fought the war's full length — Long Island, Trenton, Brandywine, Camden, Guilford Court House — and gave it its final scene on October 19, 1781, when he pleaded illness and sent his deputy Charles O'Hara to hand a sword to Washington's deputies at Yorktown. None of the three was lacking in soldierly competence; each was undone in his turn by an underestimation of the American capacity to keep fighting.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis Tradition of London set is a six-piece British command group, hand-cast in white metal at 54mm and finished in the gloss enamel of the classic Tradition line. The five figures form a headquarters tableau: a sergeant of the line stands at the left grounding his halberd — the NCO's badge of rank British regiments carried into the AWI before phasing it out for the musket in the early 1790s; Howe sits at the center on a small chest with a map on his lap, the gold lace of a senior officer's regimentals running down his coat and his crimson sash across his chest; Burgoyne stands beside him in similar laced order, his bicorne under his arm and sword in hand; Cornwallis flanks the group on the right, also in full regimentals and laced cuffs; a regimental drummer at the far right completes the detail in his reversed-colors yellow coat and grenadier-pattern cap. The drum-with-map prop in front of the group is the period field expedient — when no campaign desk was at hand, the drum-head served as the impromptu table on which orders were drafted. The set is the British command counterpart to the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/american-generals\"\u003eTradition American Generals set\u003c\/a\u003e, and pairs with W. Britain matte figures of British line and grenadier infantry like the \u003ca class=\"underline underline underline-offset-2 decoration-1 decoration-current\/40 hover:decoration-current focus:decoration-current\" href=\"\/en-ca\/products\/43rd-regiment-of-foot-grenadier-marching\"\u003e43rd Foot grenadier marching\u003c\/a\u003e for collectors building a full British command-and-line scene.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eSet Number: 201 \/ Tradition of London — Soldiers for Collectors \/ 54mm scale \/ white metal \/ gloss enamel \/ 5 figures + drum-with-map accessory\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tradition of London","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45660224225508,"sku":"201","price":145.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/files\/Toy-soldier-set-201-a70cdf2f.jpg?v=1727114717"}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0655\/7024\/2788\/collections\/Toy-soldier-set-250-649a32b7_83ad33c7-5dcb-4f5e-b1f2-f22f3ec42a4d.jpg?v=1777064895","url":"https:\/\/breagans.com\/en-ca\/collections\/tradition-of-london-american-revolution.oembed","provider":"Breagans","version":"1.0","type":"link"}