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A sutler was a merchant who provisioned an army in the field or camp. [211]: 1 A vivandière had a similar function; [212] both were types of camp followers. Sutlers were not popular figures being profit-oriented rather than heroic. [213] The occupation of sutler to the US army came to an end in 1893. [211]: 197 [214] Econom-5 [211]: 1 20
Sutler's tent at the Siege of Petersburg during the American Civil War A sutler or victualer is a civilian merchant who sells provisions to an army in the field, in camp, or in quarters. Sutlers sold wares from the back of a wagon or a temporary tent, traveling with an army or to remote military outposts. [ 1 ]
The official supplier of food to the Royal Navy in the 18th and 19th century was the Victualling Board. A victualler was a supply ship at the time. An alternative term for a sutler, a person who sells provisions to an army. A licensed victualler, a formal name for the landlord of a public house or similar licensed establishment.
Pages in category "18th-century merchants" The following 48 pages are in this category, out of 48 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Martín de ...
This is a list of slave traders of the United States, people whose occupation or business was the slave trade in the United States, i.e. the buying and selling of human chattel as commodities, primarily African-American people in the Southern United States, from the United States Declaration of Independence in 1776 until the defeat of the ...
Map of forts and settlements in the early to mid 19th century. The sutler (general store operator) at Fort Snelling, Franklin Steele, who had established lumbering interests in the area, staked a claim to lands adjacent to Saint Anthony Falls following the land cessions of the 1837 Ojibwe treaty. In 1848 he built a sawmill at the falls ...
1.2 18th century. 1.3 19th century. ... In addition he was to license and regulate sutlers, ... In 1822 the Stores Branch ...
Organizations, places, companies or other things that were founded or established in the United States in the 18th century. 18th c. (13 Colonies) ← Establishments in the United States in the 18th century → 19th c.