The 60th Regiment of Foot — the Royal Americans — was raised by royal warrant in February 1755, in the wake of Braddock's defeat on the Monongahela, as the British army's first regiment recruited and trained specifically for North American forest warfare. Its four battalions drew their rank and file from Pennsylvania-German settlers, Scots Highlanders, and Continental European volunteers, and its officers from a Swiss-mercenary tradition that included Henry Bouquet, the regiment's leading tactical thinker. Bouquet rewrote the European drill for woodland action — open order, double files, marksmanship at extended distance, the bayonet rush at close quarters — in the manuscript that became Reflections on the War with the Savages of North-America. The regiment fought at Louisbourg in 1758 and Quebec in 1759 under Wolfe on the Plains of Abraham, took the lead on Forbes's road to Fort Duquesne, and turned Pontiac's War with Bouquet's relief of Fort Pitt at Bushy Run in August 1763 — three days of close-quarters fighting in the western Pennsylvania forest that broke the Indian confederacy's siege.

This W. Britain figure shows a Royal Americans grenadier at the march — musket held vertically against the right shoulder, butt in the hand, bayonet fixed and pointing up. The order is the regiment's pre-1768 grenadier dress, before the cloth mitre cap was replaced across the British army by the bearskin: a tall embroidered cloth grenadier cap with the royal crown and the white horse of Hanover on a red field, red regimental coat with the royal blue facings (collar, lapels, cuffs, and turnbacks) that warrant reserved to royal regiments, buff waistcoat, white breeches and stockings, black short gaiters, and white cross-belts. The absence of regimental lace at the buttonholes is the diagnostic — the 60th was specifically allowed by warrant to drop the worsted tape of standard British regiments, in concession to forest-warfare practicality, and it never re-adopted the pattern. He marches in the column that took the Plains of Abraham in 1759 and broke Pontiac's siege at Bushy Run in 1763 — the British army's North American forest-warfare specialist a generation before the 43rd Foot's battalion company and the colonial militia's loading drill became the matter of a different war on the same ground.

Model: 16121 / W. Britain 1/30 (60mm) / matte finish / 1 piece set