King's Orange Rangers Editorial Photo

An entertainment performance at August 5th, 2006, Downtown of Charlottetwon, Prince Edward Island, Canada. The event performed on street to show the history of King’s Orange Rangers. About King’s Orange Rangers: William Bayard of Greenwich Village, New York was determined to support the Crown in the civil war we now call the American Revolution. He did so in 1776 by forming the King’s Orange Rangers, a Royal Provincial Loyalist Regiment comprised mainly of men from New York and New Jersey. The KOR saw action in coastal New Jersey. They were present at Kingsbridge, Haarlem Heights and Fort Knyphausen in New York. Gaining a repRepelling American privateers with a bayonet charge. PEI 2006utation for fractiousness, they were assigned to duties in Nova Scotia in 1778. As part of the Halifax garrison, they served at the Eastern Battery in Dartmouth and from time to time went on missions to the Annapolis Valley and Lunenburg.