Battle of the Thousand Islands 250th Anniversary Commemoration – Ogdensburg, NY (Land battle re-enactment)

60th Royal Americans (British troops) in the Red with Blue facings.

55th & 27th Light Companies

In photography, there is a saying “If you see red, shoot it!” With that in mind, it still amazes me that anyone in their right mind would march around in bright red and survive a day on a battlefield. I’m assuming that regardless of how white the French outfits might have been at the beginning of a battle, the combination of smoke and black powder and mud would soon make those uniforms a bit less visible.

27th Inniskilling Grenadiers on the left, being addressed by their injured Sargent