On 5 August 1763, during Pontiac's War, Colonel Henry Bouquet's column was attacked near Bushy Run in western Pennsylvania while marching to relieve Fort Pitt. His force of about 500 men, most of them Highlanders of the 42nd and 77th, spent the night in a ring around their wounded, using flour bags from the convoy as breastworks. The next morning Bouquet pulled two companies back as if his line were giving way. When the warriors pushed into the gap, those companies swung round and charged their flank with the bayonet. The attack broke, and the column reached Fort Pitt four days later.

This battalion company man is caught mid-stride with his mouth open in a shout and his musket levelled, bayonet fixed. He wears the campaign dress the 42nd adopted in America. That means a blue bonnet with a red, white and green diced band, and a short red jacket with blue cuffs edged in white lace. Below that come a dark tartan kilt and blue leggings in place of hose. A canvas haversack and a canteen ride on his hip, and his broadsword scabbard swings out behind him. For a Bushy Run scene, send him in alongside 42nd Battalion Coy Standing Firing No.2 and the British 60th Regiment of Foot, Marching, Bouquet's own regiment. Set them against Native Warrior Attacking with War Club in the woods.

W. Britain model 16054. 1/30 scale (approximately 60mm), matte-painted metal. Single foot figure on a sculpted groundwork base. Boxed.