Test 4 Flashcards
A payment of $10 to $200 to recruits in return for enlisting in the army or milita 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 played the __________ were known as pipers.
Fife
The sparse food item made of water and flour, cooked flat on a rock near a campfire. Many Continentals were reduced to eating only ___________ 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 ___________ in the Revolutionary War were British “________” muskets.
Flintlock Musket
Old English term meaning, 14 days or two weeks at the time.
Fortnight
Linen fringed shirt or light jacket wore by most 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 __________ plan.
Strategy
The light ax carried by Continental soldiers, partly because of 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 ___________ during the Revolution was at _____________, ____________, during winter of 1777-1778.
Winter Quarters
I have just begun to fight
John Paul Jones.
We fight, get beat, rise, and fight again.
General Nathanael Greene
They play, sir, is over
Lafayette at Yorktown
