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~ The Revolution War ~
1775 -1783

 

The American Continental Army was an army formed after the outbreak of the American Revolutionary War by the colonies that became the United States of America. Established by  a resolution of the Continental Congress on June 14, 1775, it was created to coordinate the military efforts of the 13 Colonies in their revolt against the rule of Great Britain.The Continental Army was supplemented by local militas and other troops that remained under control of the individual states. General George Washington was the Commander-in-Chief of the army throughout the war. Issac Waters Sr, son of Thomas Waters, was a Lieutenant of Company F, in the Continental Army during the American Revolution. Isaac transfered to V. R. C. First served in the Lincoln Light lnfty. Skirmishes between British troops and colonial militiamen in Lexington and Concord in April 1775 kicked off the armed conflict, and by the following summer, the rebels were waging a full-scale war for their independence.


 

Lt Issac Waters Sr, 1722-1808 Lieutenant of Company F, in the Continental Army, son of Thomas Waters.



Col. Philemon Waters Jr. 1734-1796 SC, fought in the French and Indian War, as well as the Revolutionary War alongside George Washington. 

 

Thomas Willoughby Waters 1736-1806 Philemon Waters 1762-1818 was 16 years old when he entered into the Revolutionary War with his father.

 

1778 Valley Forge

 

France entered the American Revolution on the side of the colonists in 1778, turning what had essentially been a civil war into an international conflict. After French assistance helped the Continental Army force the British surrender at Yorktown, Virginia, in 1779, the Americans had effectively won their independence, though fighting would not formally end until 1783. 

The Battles of Lexington and Concord were actually the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War.  They were fought on April 19, 1775, in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy (present-day Arlington), and Cambridge, near Boston.  The battles marked the outbreak of open armed conflict between the Kingdom of Great Britain and its thirteen colonies in the mainland of British North America.

 

Gen. Washington (right) watches as Baron von Steuben (center) conducts training with the Continental Army circa 1778.  By February 5, 1778, Steuben had offered to volunteer without pay (for the time), and by February 23, Steuben reported for duty to Washington at Valley Forge. Colonel Alexander Hamilton and General Nathanael Greene were of great help in assisting Steuben in drafting a training program for the Army, Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States.

 

Baron Steuben: Painting by Peale 178Z

 

Michael O'Hair: enlisted in the Continental Army and served with General Morgan's famous riflemen. He fought at Saratoga, Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse and Eutau Springs. He served as Private in Capt. John Hayes Company, 9th Virginia Regiment, commanded by Col. George Mathews. Later he was a member of Capt. Wm. Henderson's Company of Col. Daniel Morgan's Rifle Regiment, Continental Troops under Major General Nathaniel Green. He served in this capacity until the close of the war. Pursuant to an Act of the Virginia Assembly passed November 17, 1781, he drew his final pay June 27, 1783.

 

Friedrich Wilhelm August Heinrich Ferdinand von Steuben (born Friedrich Wilhelm Ludolf Gerhard Augustin von Steuben; September 17, 1730 – November 28, 1794), also referred to as the Baron von Steuben, was a Prussian-born military officer who served as Inspector General and Major General of the Continental Army & during the American Revolutionary War. On September 26, 1777, the Baron, his Italian greyhound, Azor (which he took with him everywhere), his young aide de camp Louis de Pontière, his military secretary Pierre Etienne Duponceau, and two other companions, reached Portsmouth, New Hampshire and by December 1, were extravagantly entertained in Boston. Congress was in York, Pennsylvania, after being ousted from Philadelphia by the British advance. He is credited with being one of the fathers of the Continental Army in teaching them the essentials of military drill, tactics, and disciplines. He wrote Regulations for the Order and Discipline of the Troops of the United States, the book that served as the standard United States drill manual until the War of 1812. He served as General George Washington's Cheif of Staff in the final years of the war.  

1788 Constitution Ratified

 George III: The American Revolution 

In 1770 Lord North became prime minister, beginning a 12-year period of parliamentary stability. In 1773 he passed an act taxing tea in the colonies. The Americans complained of taxation without representation (and staged the Boston Tea Party), but North held firm with George’s backing. The American Revolution began on April 19, 1775, with the Battles of Lexington and Concord. The next year, the Declaration of Independence laid out the Americans’ case for freedom, portraying George III as an inflexible tyrant who had squandered his right to govern the colonies. In reality the situation was more complex: Parliamentary ministers, not the crown, were responsible for colonial policies, though George still had means of direct and indirect influence.The king was reluctant to come to terms with his army’s defeat at Yorktown in 1781. He drafted an abdication speech but in the end decided to defer to Parliament’s peace negotiations. The 1783 Treaty of Paris recognized the United States and ceded Florida to Spain.
1789 Washington Inaugurated 
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General Von Steuben

2 cent stamp issued 1930

Son of the American Revolution 

Maryland 

 

 

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