IRISH MILITIA TYRONE LIGHT COMPANY
This blister pack contains four unpainted figures supplied with seperate heads. Examples of the figures are shown above. There were 38 regiments/battalions of Irish Militia of various strengths at the time of the 1798 Uprising. They were termed a battalion if 6 companies or less, and a regiment if 7 Companies or more. Regiments had both a grenadier and a light company; battalions had one or the other. Companies were usually scattered on garrison duty. Prior to the 1798 Uprising all the Light Companies were amalgamated into 4 Light battalions, each with a cadre of regular British army troops. The Longford Regiment Light Company fought at the Battle of Arklow as an independany company.
This blister pack contains four unpainted figures supplied with seperate heads. Examples of the figures are shown above. There were 38 regiments/battalions of Irish Militia of various strengths at the time of the 1798 Uprising. They were termed a battalion if 6 companies or less, and a regiment if 7 Companies or more. Regiments had both a grenadier and a light company; battalions had one or the other. Companies were usually scattered on garrison duty. Prior to the 1798 Uprising all the Light Companies were amalgamated into 4 Light battalions, each with a cadre of regular British army troops. The Longford Regiment Light Company fought at the Battle of Arklow as an independany company.
