JOHN PAUL JONES

GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE

LAFEAYETTE AT YORKTOWN

GENERAL CHARLES CORNWALLIS

LORD NORTH

JAMES OTIS

BOUNTY

• A payments of $10-$200 to recruits In return for and a listing in the army or militia during the American revolution

CAMPAIGN

• A series of military maneuvers lasting a few weeks or months against an opposing army

FIFE

• A high-pitched flu that both armies used for military style music. Soldiers who played the fife were known as pipers

FIRECAKE

• The sparse food item made of water and flour, cooked on a flat rock your campfire many continentals were reduced to eating only firecake during the revolution

FLINTLOCK MUSKET

• A muzzle loading musket or long firearms that uses a flint in the hammer to strike a spark and ignite the black powder. Many flintlocks in the revolutionary war were British brown bess musket

FORTNIGHT

• Old English term meaning 14 days or two weeks time

HUNTING SHIRT

• Linen fringed shirt or light jacket worn by most American soldiers in the revolutionary war. Replacement for military wool jackets of regulations

STRATEGY

• The art of military command us to and overall plan of war. How to deploy troops and where to deploy troops or part of strategic planning

TOMAHAWK

• The light apps carried by continental soldier is partly because of the lack of bayonet for their muskets

TREATY

• A formal, binding agreement between two or more countries usually sealed buy signatures of representative’s

VICTUALS

• Common18th-century term for food or rations

WINTER QUARTERS

• The static winter camp of armies during the winter months. The most famous American with your quarters during the American revolution was at Valley Forge Pennsylvania during the winter of 1777 and 1778