American Rev 4 Flashcards
A payment of $10 to $200 to recruits in return for enlisting in the army or militia during the American Revolution.
Bounty
A series of military maneuvers lasting a few weeks or months against an opposing army.
Campaign
A high pitched flute that both armies used for military style music. Soldiers who played the fife were known as pipers.
Fife
The sparse food item made of water and flour, cooked on a flat rock near a campfire. Many Continentals were reduced to eating only fire cake during the American Revolution.
Fire cake
A muzzle loading musket or long fire arm that uses a flint in a hammer to strike a spark and ignite the black powder. Many flintlocks in the Revolutionary War were the British “ Brown Bess “ muskets.
Flintlock Musket
Old english term meaning 14 days, or two weeks time.
Fortnight
Linen fringed shirt or light jacket worn most by American soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Replacement for military wool jackets of regulations.
Hunting shirt
The art of military command as to an overall plan of war. How to deploy troops and where to deploy troops are parts of strategic planning.
Strategy
The light ax carried by Continental soldiers, partly because of the lack bayonets for their muskets.
Tomahawk
A formal, binding agreement between two or more countries usually sealed by signatures of representatives.
Treaty
Common eighteenth - century term for food, or rations.
Victuals
The static winter camp of armies during winter months. The most famous American winter quarters during the Revolution was at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during during the winter of 1777 - 1778.
Winter Quarters
I have just begun to fight.
John Paul Jones
We fight, get beat,rise,and fight again.
Général Nathanael Green
The play, sir, is over.
Lafayette at Yorktown.
