Brigadier George Augustus, Viscount Howe, arrived in America in 1757 and set about making British regulars fit for forest war. He went out on scout with Robert Rogers' Rangers to learn how they moved and fought. Then he ordered the army gathering for the Ticonderoga campaign to strip down: coat skirts cut short, hair cropped, leggings worn against brush and briars, and officers' baggage cut to a minimum. Howe did not live to see the results. On 6 July 1758 he was shot dead at the head of an advance party in a confused skirmish in the woods near Ticonderoga, two days before the main assault on the French lines.

The lighter campaign dress outlived him, and this 1760–63 Highlander wears it. He fires with his right foot braced on a tree stump and his cheek laid along the stock, bayonet fixed. His blue bonnet carries a red tuft, and his short red jacket has blue lapels edged in white lace. Below the dark tartan kilt he wears blue leggings tied with red garters. For a woodland skirmish line, put him beside 42nd Battalion Coy Standing Ramming, No.2 and 42nd Battalion Coy Charging, No.1. Add Rogers' Rangers Standing Firing on the flank, since the Rangers taught Howe much of what he passed on to the army.

W. Britain model 16055. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.