Continentals

Please - let's get away from the Continentals are all nuts about an EU army nonsense.

The Creation of a European Army 2006

The Continentals were the regulars; the standing militia was a local body in which all able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty-five with certain exceptions were required to serve; and the state troops were volunteer levies raised mainly in the early years of the war.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

The Continentals were the regulars; the standing militia was a local body in which all able-bodied men between sixteen and sixty-five with certain exceptions were required to serve; and the state troops were volunteer levies raised mainly in the early years of the war.

Angel in the Whirlwind Benson Bobrick 1997

Thereafter the Continentals were a match for the best-drilled troops of England.

The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913

At a small distance in front of his Continentals was a line of militia under Colonel Pickens and Major M'Dowell, and 150 yards in front of Pickens was stationed a battalion of North Carolina and Georgia volunteers under Major Cunningham, with orders to give one discharge on the approaching enemy, and then to retreat and join the militia.

Life and Times of Washington Schroeder, J. F. 1903

Even before the days of the "Continentals" there was depreciated paper afloat that had been issued by the colonial governments and, unless the fact is definitely stated, when we come upon figures of that period we can never be sure whether they refer to pounds sterling or pounds paper, or, if the latter, what kind of paper.

George Washington: Farmer Paul Leland Haworth

French beheld first of Europe the America of the eastern waters, whose inhabitants, when they came to put on uniform and fight for its independence, called themselves "Continentals," as if their little hem of the garment were the continent.

The French in the Heart of America John Finley 1901

Except in two cases: Even Anna was aware that the "Continentals," in tasseled top-boots, were of earlier times, although they had changed their buff knee-breeches and three-cornered hats for a smart uniform of blue and gray; while these red-and-blue-flannel Zouaves, drawing swarms of boys as dray-loads of sugar-hogsheads drew flies, were as modern as 1861 itself.

Kincaid's Battery George Washington Cable 1884

This only the beginning of vengeance upon the Indian settlements on the part of the "Continentals;" cruelties compared 100

The Loyalists of America and Their Times, Vol. 2 of 2 From 1620-1816 Egerton Ryerson 1842

"Continentals" in the American Revolution and the assignats in the French Revolution were precursors of the wild paper inflations of the twentieth century.

Mises Dailies 2009