American 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.

This 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 General "Mad" Anthony Wayne Mounted (his commander), the Legion infantryman standing firing (one of his men), and the broader American Revolution & Federal Era collection.

1/30 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.