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• A PAYMENT OF $10 TO $200 TO Recruits in return for fighting for the army or militia in 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 firecake during the revolution

FLINTLOCK MUSKET

• A muzzle loading musket or longer fire on 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 bees muskets

FORT NIGHT

• Old English term meaning 14 days or two weeks time

HUNTING SHIRT

• Lined fringed shirt or light jacket worn by most Americans during the revolutionary 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 and where to deploy troops are parts of strategic planning

TOMAHAWK

• The light ask Carried by continental soldiers partly because the lack of bayonets for their muskets

PRETTY