RR-02-C
Consignment
This is a Consignment sale set we are offering. It comes in its original box and is in like-new condition.
John Jenkins Designs RR-02 Rangers Preparing for a Raid #2
French & Indian Wars
Limited Edition of 500 (No Certificate with this set)
Supplies were usually placed in bags , which in turn were rolled up
in a blanket, tumpline pack, or carried in a knapsack. Supplies for a
raid would include ‘beef, pork, rum, sugar, rice and peas’. Kegs of
gunpowder were also included for such a large raid.
During the
initial stages of the St. Francis raid, the infamous “Gunpowder Mystery”
was to reduce the raiding force by twenty-five percent. An “explosion”
was to lead to 2 officers and 38 men sent back before the raid had
hardly begun.
There was usually little time to prepare for a raid, Rangers were
expected to be ready and in their boats in less than an hour.
In Roger’s rules of ranging, it was instructed that every evening all
Rangers were to appear at roll-call, each equipped , with a musket, sixty
rounds of powder and ball, and a hatchet. At a sudden crisis, the order
would be shouted, “Turn out, Rangers!” and the men would rush to their
parades with arms in hand.