Chapter 4 Flashcards
A payment of $10 to $200 to recruits in return for enlisting in 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 fire were know 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 Ake during the revolution.
Firecake
A muzzle loading musket or long firearm that uses a flint in the hammer to strike a spark and ignite the black powder. Many flintlocks in the Revolutionary War we’re British “Brown Bess” muskets.
Flintlock Musket
Old English term meaning 14 days or two weeks timeline
Fortnight
Linen fringed shirt or light jacket worn by most American soldiers during the Revolutionary War. Replacements for military wool jackets or 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 axe carried by Continental Soldiers partly because of the lack of 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 the winter months. The most famous American winter quarters during the Revolution was at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1777-1778
Winter Quarters
John Paul Jones
I have just begun to fight
General Nathanael Greene
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
Lafayette at Yorktown
The play, sir, is over
