Royal Welch Fusiliers, Bunker Hill, 1775 Fantasy

Royal Welch Fusiliers, Bunker Hill, 1775 Fantasy75mm scale resin kit. Sculpted by Oriol Quin. Boxart by Javier Montero. Kit includes: 9 pieces The Royal Welch Fusiliers were raised in Northern Wales by Henry Herbert, Baron of Chirbury, in 1689. Their initial purpose was to fight in a relatively local conflict in Ireland, the Williamite War, but soon they were deployed in the Nine Years War and the War of the Spanish Succession. They were sent to the American colonies in 1773. They fought very

They played an important role in the American Revolutionary War as light and mobile infantry units than could be deployed “in a minute’s notice” (hence the name) and were quite useful as a response force against any threat to the colonies

The 1st zouaves was part of the 1st Army Corp under command of Marshall MacMahon and participated in many of the major engagements of the war

Boxart by Alexandre Cortina

After the battle

At the end of the expedition

Sculpted by Jun-Sik Ahn

but many soldiers and officers were assigned to isolated forts and outposts

the whole operation failed and the Allied forces had to retreat

Most of those who managed to escape fled to the colonies to avoid the repression

and depicts a brigadier of the regiment in 1810

Sculpted by Ali Jalali

Kit includes:14 pieces (including both busts and medallions)