Uniforms and Weapons
American Uniforms
The first American soldiers were local militia. There were many soldiers that weren’t trained and they didn’t have uniforms and they just wore just normal clothes they just had. In 1775 the Congress adopted brown as the official color for the uniforms.
British Uniforms
The British soldiers were often called the “Red coats,, because they wore red coats and represent the British on the battlefield. Red coats or redcoats is an historical item use widely in military at the time by the British army from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Weapons in the War
American colonists were barely 12 years removed from the French and Indian wars (1754-1763), but close enough to a new conflict to begin thinking about the necessity for building a store of weapons. some of the soldiers had to make there own weapons. The guns would have been muskets, fowling pieces or no weapon at all. And they brought and had to carried their own provisions to last in the war. Although the musket would be carried over to the new war, and some weapons had seen its zenith in the old conflict. The matchlock musket was obsolete by 1775, but still retained by some families as a useful, but cumbersome to fire, weapon.
The first American soldiers were local militia. There were many soldiers that weren’t trained and they didn’t have uniforms and they just wore just normal clothes they just had. In 1775 the Congress adopted brown as the official color for the uniforms.
British Uniforms
The British soldiers were often called the “Red coats,, because they wore red coats and represent the British on the battlefield. Red coats or redcoats is an historical item use widely in military at the time by the British army from the 17th to the 20th centuries.
Weapons in the War
American colonists were barely 12 years removed from the French and Indian wars (1754-1763), but close enough to a new conflict to begin thinking about the necessity for building a store of weapons. some of the soldiers had to make there own weapons. The guns would have been muskets, fowling pieces or no weapon at all. And they brought and had to carried their own provisions to last in the war. Although the musket would be carried over to the new war, and some weapons had seen its zenith in the old conflict. The matchlock musket was obsolete by 1775, but still retained by some families as a useful, but cumbersome to fire, weapon.