Poldark : Ross was an officer in the 62nd Regiment of Foot?

Ross was an officer in the 62nd Regiment of Foot?

That's a history fail. The regiment suffered terrible losses in the decisive British defeat at the Battle of Saratoga in 1777 and the survivors all surrendered to the colonials after the battle and remained in captivity until 1783.

Seeing that he was apparently gone from Cornwall for three years total and we initially saw him in Virginia in 1781, presumably around the time of the Siege of Yorktown, it doesn't seem to work.

Is there any information on what exactly happened after he was injured? He was captured and then released with other British prisoners in 1783 or he wasn't captured and simply chose not to go home? The timeline seems really off. If they are going to war with France again, then it's 1793 and presumably he's been home for ten years since the American Revolution, although it doesn't seem nearly that long.

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You did just fine, Clarence. Now go get yo'self some hot cornbread!

Re: Ross was an officer in the 62nd Regiment of Foot?

In February 1783, 8 months before Ross returns to Nampara, his father disloses this news (from the books):

"He's in New York now. Part of the garrison. He's quite recovered from his wound. It was lucky he escaped from the Yorktown siege. A captain now, you know. Still in the 62nd Foot."

The events (changed for the series) of the final episode of Season Two occur in December 1793 in the books.





If there aren't any skeletons in a man's closet, there's probably a Bertha in his attic.

Re: Ross was an officer in the 62nd Regiment of Foot?

So they changed that in the series to everyone thinking he was dead since Yorktown? And then suddenly he appears two years later after the war ends in 1783 after not having written since 1781? Weird.

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You did just fine, Clarence. Now go get yo'self some hot cornbread!

Re: Ross was an officer in the 62nd Regiment of Foot?

I'd like to know what the 62nd was up to, in World War One, AND World War Two. And even what they're doing, today.
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