1859 Victoria Pioneer Rifles "PIG WAR"

[juergen c. olk]

1859 Victoria Pioneer Rifles. Victoria /BC recruited Blacks from San Fransisco to form a unit for possible intervention in the PIG WAR. They were Black and British officered ,with British Royal Marine NCOs.Uniform typical Canadian rifle uniform except orange instead of red piping.Perry 28mm BIF figs.

[carlos marighela]

Excellent! Good stuff bringing an important, albeit obscure, unit to life and in the context of one of my favourite what-ifs.  The Perry figures are ideal for the Pig War.

[juergen c. olk]

thanx,I love the Obscure

[Rochejaquelein]

I'm not familiar with the mounted colonel. Is that a conversion?

[v_lazy_dragon]

For some reason I always thought they were uniformed in red. More awesome work!

[eptingmike]

I'm not familiar with the mounted colonel. Is that a conversion?

I believe that figure is in Warlord's Crimean War range.  Formally Alban Miniatures many a moon ago?

[juergen c. olk]

the British mtd officer is from ''Warlord'' games Crmean war range. All Canadian rifle units wore green w/ red piping except this unit. The normal Canadian Infantry wore red  ,with the few excptions of small companies which had gray or brown. The second picture is the Victoria Pioneer Rifles.

[commissarmoody]

Oh very cool. I had not heard about that Unit before.

[CapnJim]

Lovely job on those figures.  I have done them up as the Queen's Own Rifles at Ridgeway in '66.

[Emir of Askaristan]

Always good to shine light on the obscured.

More please!

[Will Bailie]

Great to see the Victoria Pioneer Rifles depicted!  I, too, had imagined them in red but difficult to see that in a black and white photo 

https://www.communitystories.ca/v2/bc-black-pioneers_les-pionniers-noirs-de-la-cb/gallery/victoria-pioneer-rifle-corps-standing-in-their-ranks-march-1864/ confirms that drill uniforms were green with orange facings.