Colonial American military history

Colonial American military history is the military record of the Thirteen Colonies from their founding to the American Revolution in 1775.

George Washington in 1772 as colonel of the Virginia Regiment; painting by Charles Willson Peale

Beginning when on August 29, 1643, the Plymouth Colony Court allowed & established a military discipline to be erected and maintained.[1]

  1. ^ "Records of the colony of New Plymouth in New England : Printed by order of the legislature of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts".