Plate (No.783):
"Continental Army Rifle Corps 1778-1779"
Available from the Company of Military Historians
http://www.military-historians.org/company/plates/images/US.htm#rebel
"The seal of the Company of Military Historians commemorates the founding of the United States Army.
"On June 14, 1775 the Continental Congress resolved 'That six companies of expert riflemen be immediately raised in Pennsylvania, two in Maryland, and two in Virginia.'
"These '...remarkably stout and hardy men, many of them exceeding six feet in height, clad in hunting shirts and armed with a rifle-barreled gun, a tomahawk... and a long knife...' were the first United States Regulars."
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