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Thomas Conway
Thomas Conway 1735-1800?, general in the Continental army in the American Revolution, b. Ireland. Educated in France, he was an officer in the French army before coming (1777) to America. He fought valiantly as a leader of colonial forces at Germantown, but George Washington attempted to block his ... Read more
David Wooster
David Wooster , 1711-77, American Revolutionary officer, b. Fairfield co., Conn. He served as an officer in the British army during the last of the French and Indian Wars . Wooster resigned his commission upon the outbreak of the American Revolution, was one of the promoters of the Ticonderoga expe... Read more
Richard Montgomery
Richard Montgomery 1738?-1775, American Revolutionary general, b. Swords, Co. Dublin, Ireland. After entering the British army, he was sent (1757) to Canada in the French and Indian Wars and saw action at Louisburg, Ticonderoga, and Montreal before participating in operations against Martinique a... Read more
Society of the Cincinnati
Society of the Cincinnati [Lat. pl. of Cincinnatus ], organization formed (1783) by officers of the Continental Army just before their disbanding after the American Revolution. The organization, with a constitution drafted by Gen. Henry Knox , was founded for fraternal, patriotic, and allegedly n... Read more
United States War Department
United States War Department federal executive department organized (1789) to administer the military establishment. It was reconstituted (1947) as the Dept. of the Army when the military administration was reorganized (see Defense, United States Department of ). During the American Revolution, mi... Read more
Conway Cabal
Conway Cabal 1777, intrigue in the American Revolution to remove George Washington as commander in chief of the Continental Army. Washington had been defeated at Brandywine and Germantown, and Horatio Gates was flushed with success by his victory in the Saratoga campaign. Some Congressmen and arm... Read more
Valley Forge
Valley Forge on the Schuylkill River, SE Pa., NW of Philadelphia. There, during the American Revolution, the main camp of the Continental Army was established (Dec., 1777-June, 1778) under the command of Gen. George Washington. The winter was severe, food and clothing was inadequate, and illness an... Read more
Friedrich Wilhelm Steuben, Baron von
Friedrich Wilhelm Steuben, Baron von , 1730-94, Prussian army officer, general in the American Revolution, b. Magdeburg. He served in the Seven Years War and was a general staff officer. In 1762 he became an aide to Frederick the Great. Later, he was court chamberlain for the prince of Hohenzollern-... Read more
John Morgan
John Morgan 1735-89, American physician, b. Philadelphia, grad. College of Philadelphia (now Univ. of Pennsylvania), 1751. He founded, in Philadelphia (1765), the first medical school in the United States. In 1775 he became director-general and physician in chief to the general hospital of the Cont... Read more
Fort Sam Houston
Fort Sam Houston U.S. army base, 3,300 acres (1,335 hectares), S Tex., in San Antonio; headquarters of the Fifth Army. San Antonio, long a military center, donated land in 1870 for the site of a permanent military post that was constructed from 1876 to 1890 and named for Gen. Sam Houston. The famou... Read more

Encyclopedia entries related to "Continental Army"

Continental Army
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Continental Army. Americans used various forms of...innovative solutions called the “Continental army.” The name meant more...theaters. In simplest terms, the Continental army was the military force that delegates...
Continental Navy
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History Continental Navy. The first vessel to sail under authority of the Continental Congress was the schooner Hannah. Shortly after taking command of the Continental army at Cambridge, George Washington realized the...
Continental Congress
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to United States History ...action. The Second Continental Congress, which convened...siege of the British army in Boston by a provincial...raising and maintaining a Continental Army to fight the Revolutionary...issues. Although the Continental Congress provided sufficient...
Continental Congress (Second)
Encyclopedia entry from: Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History ...colonial delegates met again as the Second Continental Congress and began preparing for the fight...Franklin (1706 – 1790). The Second Continental Congress created the Continental Army and named George Washington commander in chief...
Army, U.S.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...land force of the United States, the U.S. Army traces its origins to the Continental army of the Revotionary War . That army, a...x2010;serving enlisted force—the Continental army set the pattern for its successor under the...
Army Corps of Engineers, U.S.
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...first chief engineer of the Continental army . Later, Gridley was succeeded...Congress as a component of the Continental army in 1779. The engineers' fortifications...Yorktown . Like most of the Continental army, they were mustered out after...
army
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to British History ...French Revolution, the army was deliberately kept...regarded as obsolete in continental warfare, such as officers...rigid control of the army's budget, a deliberately...in order to keep the army politically weak. Officers...Britain was a major continental land power with a large...
Army Combat Branches: Infantry
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...frequently is supported by the army's other arms and services, and...On 14 June 1775, the Second Continental Congress authorized the raising...part of George Washington 's new Continental Army besieging Boston at the outset...
Army, US
Book article from: World Encyclopedia ...maintain 8 National Guard and 12 reserve divisions; major overseas commands are the Seventh Army in Europe and the Eighth Army in South Korea. The Continental Army existed from 1775, but the first regular standing army was authorized by Congress in...
Weaponry, Army
Book article from: The Oxford Companion to American Military History ...larger framework. The development of army weapons progressed through three...personal weapons put a number of British army “Brown Bess”...throughout most of the war, both the Continental army and the militia were supplied with...

Dictionary entries related to "Continental Army"

Continental Army
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Continental Army see U.S. Army .
Continental Congress
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...with England. The Second Continental Congress Parliament did not...gathering, known as the Second Continental Congress, faced greater difficulties...Boston, where the British army had retreated, and Congress...Washington commander in chief of continental military forces (15 June...
continental
Book article from: The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable continental Continental Congress in the US, each of the...Lexington and Concord, created a Continental Army, which fought and eventually won the War of American Independence . Continental Divide the main series of mountain...
Continental United States Intelligence
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Continental United States Intelligence U.S. Army intelligence command located at Fort Holabird, Maryland, created in the 1960s to monitor civilian civil rights and antiwar organizations...
Army, United States
Dictionary entry from: Dictionary of American History ...14 June 1775 by an act of the Second Continental Congress. The new Continental army sustained the patriot cause in the...gave the nation a high degree of continental security, although the army continued to man dozens of coastal...
army
Book article from: A Dictionary of British History ...Whereas in some countries the army became the focus of political...the French Revolution, the army was deliberately kept apart...practices regarded as obsolete in continental warfare, such as officers purchasing...militarism meant rigid control of the army's budget, a deliberately...
Army Rangers
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Army Rangers small groups of soldiers...exercises. On June 14, 1775, the Continental Congress established six companies...those serving in the Confederate Army under Col. John S. Mosby...rangers active in the Union Army as well, in particular Mean...
Army Medical Department
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military ...responsible for operating the Army's fixed hospitals and dental...medical specialists to the Army's combat medical units. Although the Continental Congress had created a medical...the War of 1812 (when the Army had no medical department per...
Army, U.S.
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Army, U.S. the principal land force of the...The first regulary fighting force was the Continental Army , founded June 14, 1775, to replace local militias. The Department of the Army is organized as part of the Department of...
Strategic Army Forces
Book article from: The Oxford Essential Dictionary of the U.S. Military Strategic Army Forces a component of the U.S. Army trained, equipped, and maintained for use on a national level and in accordance with current plans. This component is usually located in the continental United States.

Thesaurus entries related to "Continental Army"

soldier
Book article from: The Oxford American Writers Thesaurus soldier • noun  her daddy was a soldier in the Continental Army synonyms : fighter, trooper, serviceman, servicewoman; warrior; GI; peacekeeper; archaic man-at-arms. phrase: soldier on informal .  See persevere.

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The Continental army in 1776.(United States)
Magazine article from: Cobblestone; 10/1/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...commanded fewer than 10,000 Continental army soldiers. Some of these men...Despite its problems, the Continental army could not afford to be passive...city. Unfortunately for the Continental army, though, the British then...
Ward, Harry M.: George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army.(Book review)
Magazine article from: History: Review of New Books; 6/22/2006; ; 700+ words ; ...s Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army Carbondale: Southern Illinois...on the inside workings of the Continental army has been superb and this book...heretofore little known aspect of Continental army life--how the army maintained...
Continental Army veterans: From outcasts to Icons
Magazine article from: VFW, Veterans of Foreign Wars Magazine; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the country often treated the Continental Army with a level of suspicion and...regular army, including the Continental Army, was a threat to liberty...Historians revised the image of the Continental Army to create models of American...
Continental Army veterans: from outcasts to icons: despite contemporary popular history, our Revolutionary War veteran-forefathers were not always perceived by the public as heroes. This is a sobering reminder during this primetime of patriotism.
Magazine article from: VFW Magazine; 6/1/2002; ; 700+ words ; ...the country often treated the Continental Army with a level of suspicion and...regular army, including the Continental Army, was a threat to liberty...Historians revised the image of the Continental Army to create models of American...
George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 12/22/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...s Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army. By Harry M. Ward. (Carbondale...of military discipline in the Continental army and his approval of exemplary...individuals who policed the Continental army. It conveys their wide range...
Service in Continental Army is rewarded
Newspaper article from: Philadelphia Tribune, The; 3/7/2000; ; 700+ words ; ...Tribune, The 03-07-2000 Service in Continental Army is rewarded Part III of III Their plan...Virginia furnished four military units -- the Continental Line, for service in the Continental Army, the State Line, the State Militia...
George Washington's Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army
Magazine article from: The Virginia Magazine of History and Biography; 1/1/2007; ; 700+ words ; ...s Enforcers: Policing the Continental Army * Harry M. Ward * Carbondale...keeping George Washington's Continental Army in the field. Very little scholarly...and on taking command of the Continental Army later that year, he quickly...
Curing the Continental Army's IIIs: Declaration of Independence signer, noted physician, teacher, and political writer Benjamin Rush led the reform of many medical problems in the Continental Army.(History--Greatness Of The Founders)
Magazine article from: The New American; 4/4/2005; ; 700+ words ; ...method of destroying Howe's whole army without powder or ball or without...Rush, then Physician General of the Continental Army's Middle [Medical] Department...Nathanael Greene in 1777. Some of the army's medical department's woes were...
America Goes to War: A Social History of the Continental Army.
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/1997; ; 700+ words ; ...Revere myth suggests that the Continental Army was composed of artisans, yeoman...soldier. As a result, the Continental army became "a true pell-mell...Americans saw service in the Continental Army as "trading one master for...
Gen. James Woolnough Dies; Led Continental Army
Newspaper article from: The Washington Post; 6/4/1996; 453 words ; James Karrick Woolnough, 85, an Army general who retired in 1970 at Fort Monroe, Va., as commander of the Continental Army, died of cancer May 30 at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. A resident of the Washington...