Colonial Campaigns Club (CCC)

Being unable to defeat the French in the Napoleon period, I need to return to my North American roots and deal with them here [^]

Any takers for a F&I Engagement?

Also, would any of you historians know where I can find a muster out record for say the 42nd Highlanders (or similiar unit)in Western Pennsylvania around 1760-66? I have an ancestor, Archibald McDonald, who appeared in that region, and had a son, James McDonald, born in 1760 somewhere in Western Penn. James eventually married Elizabeth Piety, who I understand was born or raised at Fort Pitt. I know the region was sparsely settled (and scalped often) and folks kept together. Also, the Highlanders were offered land at the end of their service [?].

Amazingly, I may even have roots to the Royal Highland Emigrants [:0]

Try here as a place to start:
http://www.btinternet.com/~james.mckay/na001.htm

From that site:
"The Black Watch reached New York in 1756. The regiment sat idle until the attack on Louisbourg (Nova Scotia) in 1757, which failed. In 1758, the Black Watch was part of the failed attempt to take Fort Ticonderoga which cost the Regiment half of its men as casualties. Come 1759, the 2nd battalion joins from the Caribbean for the renewed attack on Fort Ticonderoga, which succeeded. The Regiment was present at the surrender of Montreal in 1760 and was then sent to the Caribbean in 1762, where tropical disease wiped out half there numbers. The depleted companies were reformed into one battalion and sent to New York later that year. The Black Watch then policed the frontier for the next 4 years and fought in Pontiacs rebellion and winning the noted battle at Bush Run (PA). Many of these veteran soldiers took land grants in America, some of whom, would later join the Royal Highland Emigrants. The Regiment returned to America in the troubled times of 1776. "

Then try:
http://www.regiments.org/milhist/

Take a look here, too.

http://www.mohicanpress.com/bushy_run.html

The Highlanders not only fought in Pontiac's Uprising, they won the climatic battle of Bushy Run in 1763.

Using a little trickery they fiegned retreat to lure the Indians into a premature pursuit. Once in the kill zone, the flank companies fell upon the entrapped Natives breaking the power of the tribes in the region and raising the siege of Fort Pitt.

http://www.heritagebooks.com/ is a great source for the kind of book you are looking for. Their online catalog is not that great. See if you can get their paper catalog.

They also have quite a large section on the French and Indian War with many smaller publications that might go unnoticed elsewhere.

Col. Cox
NJM

Sir,

I am willing and able to take you on, name your battle and send it my way, choose the rules you desire, I am flexable. Looking foward to hearing from you.[8D]