Am Rev Vocabulary 4
Published on Mar 23, 2016
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PRESENTATION OUTLINE
FIFE
- A high pitched flute that both armies used for military type music soldiers who played the fife were known as pipers
FIRECAKE
- A spasm food item made of flour and water cooked on a flat rock near a campfire many continentals were reduced to eating only fire cake during the revolution
FLINTLOCK MUSKET
- A muzzle loading musket of long firearm that uses flint in the hammer to spark and ignite black powder many flintlocks during the revolutionary war were British Brown Bess muskets
FORTKNIGHT
- A old English term meaning 14 days or two weeks
HUNTING SHIRT
- Linen fringed shirt or light jacket worn by most American soldiers during the revolutionary war replacement for military wool jacket of regulation
STRATEGY
- The art of military command as a overall plan of war how to deploy troops and were to deploy troops are a part of military strategic planning
TOMAHAWK
- A light axe carried by continental soldiers partly because of the lack of bayonets for their muskets
TREASON
- The act of betraying your country to the enemy
TREATY
- A formal agreement between two or more contrives usually signed by representatives
VICTUALS
- Common eighteenth century term for food or rations
WINTER QUARTERS
- The static winter camp of the armies during the winter months
