Independent Californian Rangers Revolver Brigade

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Thonen and Ross from The Revolt at Eureka’ by R. Wenban. Schools Publishing House, 1959.

Background

James McGill, who claimed to have attended Westpoint, was the Commander of the Independent Californian Rangers Revolver Brigade.[1]

The Independent Californian Rangers Revolver Brigade entered the Eureka Stockade on 02 December 1854, and left the Stockade to intercept Major Nickle’s men. [2] They carried Colt revolvers and Mexican Knives.[3]

Raffaello Carboni described the Independent Californian Rangers Revolver Brigade:

I should say they numbered a couple of hundred, looking Californian enough, armed with a Colt's revolver of large size, and many had a Mexican knife at the hip.[4]

Carboni reported of the Eureka Stockade:

It was full dawn, not daylight. A discharge of musketry - then a round from the bugle - the command 'forward' - and another discharge of musketry was sharply kept on by the redcoats (some 300 strong) advancing on the gully west of the stockade, for a couple of minutes. The shots whizzed by my tent. I jumped out of the stretcher and rushed to my chimney facing the stockade. The forces within could not muster above 150 diggers. The shepherds' holes inside the lower part of the stockade had been turned into rifle-pits, and were now occupied by Californians of the I.C. Rangers' Brigade, some twenty or thirty in all, who had kept watch at the 'outposts' during the night. Ross and his division northward, Thonen and his division southward, and both in front of the gully, under cover of the slabs answered with such a smart fire, that the military who were now fully within range, did unmistakably appear to me to swerve from their ground: anyhow the command 'forward' from Sergeant Harris was put a stop to. Here a lad was really courageous with his bugle. He took up boldly his stand to the left of the gully and in front: the redcoats 'fell in' in their ranks to the right of this lad. The wounded on the ground behind must have numbered a dozen.[5]

Members

Robert Burnete - Charles Ferguson - James McGill - William Melody - Thomas Nelson - Charles Ross - --- Smith

Also See

California

Eureka Stockade

United States of America

Weapons

References

  1. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  2. Corfield, J.,Wickham, D., & Gervasoni, C. The Eureka Encyclopaedia, Ballarat Heritage Services, 2004.
  3. Knight, Ian, Queen Victoria'a enemies (4), Osprey Publishing.
  4. Carboni, Raffello, The Eureka Stockade, Hayes Barton Press
  5. Carboni, Raffaello, "Eureka Stockade", 1855.