Twenty years before the American Revolution, the Royal Province of New Jersey prepared itself for the greatest war the world had ever seen.

Poised on the western frontier of the dominions of Great Britain were the armies of Louis XV and his Indian allies - intent on protecting vast French claims in the New World. The colonial forces first clashed near modern Pittsburgh, unleashing a fury of Indian raids from the frontiers of Virginia to the wilds of Maine.

In the years of war which followed, New Jersey's provincial regiment, the "Jersey Blues," fought valiantly in battles against the French and Indians at Oswego (1756), Lake George (1757), and Ticonderoga (1758).

At home, the Frontier Guard defended the western settlements of Sussex County by constantly patrolling the wilderness between the fourteen forts on the provincial frontier.

Today, the New Jersey Frontier Guard continues the tradition of patrolling the provincial frontiers, but concentrates its attention on research, publishing, and public historical events.