We believe that an accurate portrayal of the infamous Redcoat will bring increased respect for the hardships the Founding Fathers had to overcome to create this great nation. Recreating a British unit is also much more difficult. The standards of drill, discipline, and dress are much higher than for the colonial side. Knowing this, many of our members relish the challenge. In order to take the field as a uniformed member of the Grenadier Company, you must be a male of at least seventeen years of age, and physically able to handle a flintlock musket.
Musicians can apply for membership at the age of fourteen, but require parental permission.
There is no upper age limit. The armies of the time had a large number of women and children attached. As living history is definitely a family oriented hobby, wives, children, and sweethearts of our modern day soldiers can take part by depicting their 18th century counterparts. They portray women and children of the period, in all of the various roles that women and children held. They enact their roles as officer's ladies, wives of soldiers, or camp followers.