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United States (United States) (search for this): entry uniforms-of-the-american-army
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Uniforms of the American army.
The American provincial troops serving with British regulars in the colonial wars were generally without uniforms; but there were exceptions.
The New Jersey infantry, under Colonel Schuyler, were clad in blue cloth, and obtained the name of The Jersey Blues.
Their coats were blue faced with red, gray stockings, and buckskin breeches.
The portrait of Washington, painted by Charles Wilson Peale in 1772, shows his dress as a Virginia colonel of infantry to be a blue coat faced with buff, and buff waistcoat and breeches.
This was his uniform during the Revolution, and in it he appeared at the session of the second Continental Congress (1775), indicating, as Mr. Adams construed it, his readiness for the field in any station.
In this costume he appeared when, early in July, 1775, he took command of the army at Cambridge.
There is a political significance in the blue-and-buff-colored uniform.
The coats of the soldiers of William of Orange who inva
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