When the Revolutionary War ended Washington's victorious Continental Army was disbanded. The infant United States had very mixed feelings about standing armies; but years of Indian-fighting on the frontier emphasised the need for a force larger than Josiah Harmar's original 700-man 1st American Regiment. In the event Secretary Hamilton's far-sighted reforms, which produced 'Wayne's Legion' in the early 1790s, were to be short-lived, and it took later threats of international war to stimulate the eventual expansion of the young US Army. James Kochan's meticulously researched study of a dramatic and confused period in American military history - the years of St Clair's disaster, 'Mad Anthony' Wayne's victory at Fallen Timbers, and Harrison's at Tippecanoe - is illustrated with many rare and important paintings and drawings. Here
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Shawnee War Chief Blue Jacket by Doug Hall
This impressed me. Blue Jacket - Wikipedia Blue Jacket , or Weyapiersenwah (c. 1743 – 1810), was a war chief of the Shawnee people, kn...
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Our colonial Marine unit gets some last minute instruction before going to fight the British. Pinterest for more.

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