Originally Posted by
clan campbell
the uniform is the uniform of the 42nd RHR during the Revolutionary war
...Disagree CC! The 42d, during the American Revolution, wore BLUE facings (the color worn by all "Royal" regiments) and the officers wore gold braid . These facings, at least in my eyes, are clearly GREEN with silver braid, indicating Hugh Montgomerie to be a member of the 77th Highlanders (called Montgomery's Highlanders after their Colonel, Archibold Montgomery)...see post #8. I was wrong on the event that the painting depicted...but stick by my call on the regiment!
"If there must be trouble, let it be in my day, that my child may have peace." -- Thomas Paine
Scottish-American Military Society Post 1921
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