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The Continental Soldier: Spring 2011 Newsletter

Message From the Editor
Procedure for Units That Wish to Join the Continental Line
Up Coming Big Events
-The Wyoming Valley Raid
-Mount Harmon Plantation
-Colonial Plantation
-Peter Wentz Farmstead
-The Annual Battle of Bound Brook
-233rd Anniversary Commemoration of the Battle of Monmouth
Coming in 2012
-Prescott Ontario

After Action Reports: Battle of Brandywine: September 25-26 2010

From the perspective of a member of the Continentals, in the southern battalion: Saturday dawned sunny, with the expectation of a warm day. The Continentals were formed into three battalions: the lights, northern and southern battalions. Support- ing the Continentals was 3 artillery pieces and perhaps one of the largest collection of Continental cavalry, approximately…

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Logistics and the Continental Army Part II: Transport and Forage

by Joe Wagner Logistics: “. . the branch of military science dealing with the procurement, maintenance, and movement of equipment, supplies, and personnel.” PART TWO –TRANSPORT & FORAGE The success or failure of a Quartermaster General (QMG) was largely judged on his ability to bring support to the troops while in winter camp and keeping…

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