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Colonial Vocabulary 4

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BOUNTY

  • A payment of $10 to $200 to recruits in return for enlisting in the army during the American Revolution
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CAMPAIGN

  • A series of military maneuvers lasting a few weeks or months against the apposing army
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FIFE

  • A high pitched flute that both armies used for military stile music.

FIRECAKE

  • The sparse food item made of water and flower cooked on a flat rock near a campfire many soldiers were reduced to eating fire cake
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FLINTLOCK MUSKET

  • A muzzle loading musket or firearm that uses a flip and a ingnite of black powder. Many flintlocks in the revolutionary war were British Brown bees.

HUNTING SHIRT

  • Lien fringed shirt or light jacket worn by American soldiers during the revolutionary war
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FORTNIGHT

  • Old English term meaning 14 days or two weeks time.
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STRATEGY

  • The art of military command as to an overall plan of war. How to deploy troops.

TOMAHAWK

  • The light ax carried by Continental soldiers

TREASON

  • The act of betraying your country to the enemy.
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TREATY

  • A formal binding agreement between two or more countries by representatives.

VICTUALS

  • Common eighteenth century term for food or rations

WINTER QUARTERS

  • The static winter camp of armies during the winter months. The most famous American winter quarters during the Revolution was Vally Forge.
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JOHN PAUL JONES 1779

  • I have just begun to fight.
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NATHANAEL GREEN

  • We fight,get beat, rise, and fight again.
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LAFAYETTE AT YORKTOWN 1781

  • The play, sir, is over.
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CHARLES CORNWALLIS 1781

  • The late affair has almost broke my heart
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LORD NORTH 1781

  • Oh god it is all over
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JAMES OTIS 1783

  • Where liberty is there is my country