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Seymour's Regiment of Light Dragoons. 1st Battalion State Regiment, 1776–77. 1st Regiment of Militia, 1778–79. 2nd Regiment of Militia, 1776. 3rd Regiment of Foot, 1775. 3rd Regiment of Militia, 1776. 4th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76. 5th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76. 7th Regiment of Militia, 1775–76.
The Continental Army was the army of the United Colonies representing the Thirteen Colonies and later the United States during the American Revolutionary War. It was formed on June 14, 1775, by a resolution passed by the Second Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia after the war's outbreak. The Continental Army was created to coordinate ...
The Congressional resolution of June 14, 1775 authorized ten companies of expert riflemen to be raised for one-year enlistments as Continental Army troops. Maryland and Virginia were to raise two companies each, and Pennsylvania was charged with raising six. However, Pennsylvania frontiersman were so eager to participate that, on June 22 ...
the Sullivan Expedition. The 4th New York Regiment was one of four established by the New York Provincial Congress at the direction of the Continental Congress for the defense of King's Bridge where Manhattan Island joins the mainland, and of the Hudson River. The regiment would see action in the Invasion of Canada, New York Campaign, Battle of ...
The Continental Army was the army raised by the Second Continental Congress to oppose the British Army during the American Revolutionary War.The army went through three major establishments: the first in 1775, the second in 1776, and the third from 1777 until after the end of the war.
Colonial American military history. Colonial American military history is the military record of the Thirteen Colonies from their founding to the American Revolution in 1775. George Washington in 1772 as colonel of the Virginia Regiment; painting by Charles Willson Peale. Beginning when on August 29, 1643, the Plymouth Colony Court allowed ...
14th Continental Regiment. The 14th Continental Regiment, also known as the Marblehead Regiment and Glover's Regiment, was raised as a Massachusetts militia regiment in 1775, and taken into the Continental Army establishment during the summer of 1775. When the Continental Army was reestablished for 1776, the regiment was redesignated the 14th ...
t. e. The Continental Marines were the amphibious infantry of the American Colonies (and later the United States) during the American Revolutionary War. The Corps was formed by the Continental Congress on November 10, 1775, and was disbanded in 1783. Their mission was multi-purpose, but their most important duty was to serve as onboard security ...