Provincial troops were military units raised by colonial governors and legislatures in British America for extended operations during the 18th century. The provincial troops differed from the militia,
1772 portrait of George Washington as colonel of the Virginia Regiment
1756 portrait of a Massachusetts provincial officer
Provincial troops during the siege of Louisbourg in 1745
Illustration of a Jersey Blues private in marching order in 1758
Virginia Regiment
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The Virginia Regiment was a line infantry regiment of the Virginia Provincial Forces raised in 1754 by the Virginia General Assembly and Governor Robert Dinwiddie for service in the French and Indian
Provincial troops in the French and Indian Wars
…men. To replace them the militia of the western counties were mobilized, and marched under Governor Sharpe to take control of Fort Cumberland, when the Virginia Regiment under George Washington left it. Maryland raised the following provincial units annually from 1755 to the end of the war: Maryland Garrison Battalion…
Illustration of a regimental private in 1758
Statue dedicated to the First Virginia Regiment at Meadow Park in Richmond, Virginia