BOUNTY

• A payment of $10 to $200 to recruits in return for enlisting 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 flute that both armies used for military style music. Soldiers who played the fife were known as pipers.

FIRE CAKE

• The sparse food item made of water and flour, cooked on a flat rock Near a campfire. Many continentals were reduced to eating only eating fire cake during the Revolution.

FLINTLOCK MUSKET

• A muzzle loading musket to long firearm 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” muskets.

FORTNIGHT

• Old English term meaning 14 days, or Two weeks time.

HUNTING SHIRT

• Linen fringed shirt or light jacket worn by most American soldiers during the Revolutiony War. Replacement for military wool jackets of regulations

STRATEGY

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

TOMAHAWK

• The light ax carried by Continental soldiers, partly because of the lack of bayonets for their muskets.

TREATY

• A formal, binding agreement between two or more countries usually sealed by signatures of 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 at Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, during the winter of 1777-1778.

QUOTES

JOHN PAUL JONES (1779)

GENERAL NATHANAEL GREENE (1781)

LAFAYETTE AT YORKTOWN(1781)

GENERAL CHARLES CORNWALLIS(1781)

LORD NORTH (1781)

JAMES OTIS (1783)