Brant's Volunteers | |
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Active | 1777-1783 |
Country | Kingdom of Great Britain |
Allegiance | Kingdom of Great Britain |
Branch | Loyalist associators |
Type | Independent rangers (auxiliaries) |
Role | Special operations, guerrilla warfare, light infantry |
Size | 100-300 |
Equipment | Mixed arms (Brown Bess muskets, hunting rifles, tomahawks, scalping knives) |
Engagements | American Revolutionary War
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Brant's Volunteers, also known as Joseph Brant's Volunteers, were an irregular unit of Loyalist and Indigenous volunteers raised during the American Revolutionary War by Mohawk war leader, Joseph Brant (Mohawk: Thayendanegea). Brant's Volunteers fought on the side of the British on the frontier of New York and in the Ohio Country. As associators they were not provided uniforms, weapons, provisions, or pay by the British government, and survived by foraging and plundering.