great find! amazing what you don't read in American papers...
Posted on 07/04/2013 7:14:45 PM PDT by BunnySlippers
These stunning images are early photographs of some of the men who bravely fought for their country in the Revolutionary War some 237 years ago.
Images of Americans who fought in the Revolution are exceptionally rare because few of the Patriots of 1775-1783 lived until the dawn of practical photography in the early 1840s.
These early photographs – known as daguerreotypes – are exceptionally rare camera-original, fully-identified photographs of veterans of the War for Independence – the war that established the United States.
(Excerpt) Read more at dailymail.co.uk ...
Especially for Brit teeth. DO NOT laugh at their teeth.
great find! amazing what you don't read in American papers...
And from a British newspaper. Very telling that no American paper or news service would even think to do anything like this.
You mean that doesn't mean registered and licensed?
/bitter sarcasm
Fantastic-thanks!
Twenty-three ancestors for me in the American Revolution. One of them, Jacob Seachrist served with Lancaster County Militia at Brandywine and Germantown in 1777. Jacob was born in 1760 and was a private in Captain Godfreed Klugh’s Seventh company, ninth battalion, commanded by Col. Fredrick Ziegler. He married and had thirteen children.
I just found an ancestor who fought in the Florida campaign also, as well as in Savannah, Ga. He enlisted in the South Carolina CL and they were sent to Florida.
I had never heard of Florida campaign either.
Wow, 23!
Most of mine were privates; One was a Captain and there are several DAR chapters that bear his name, Captain James Hardage Lane.
Bfl
I guess I should eventually take the time and research the Florida Campaign since so many men participated.
My sister is researching that side of my family, so she probably has more info than I’ve found. I’ve hit brick walls on the maternal side, so I just started looking on some of the links on the paternal side which is how I found the Florida connection.
I was just shocked about the Florida campaign...
I think it’s a little special British sauce to call Sullivan’s expedition genocidal. The founders had been exposed to native American warfare along the frontier for more than a century, so much so that among Jefferson’s indictment of King George and among his train of abuses, “ He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.”
I doubt Washington laughed at anybody's teeth.
Just in case you hadn’t read this
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_theater_of_the_American_Revolutionary_War
Awesome stuff isn’t it? The older I get the more awesome it all becomes, how about you? I honestly feel like a traitor to my ancestors, as I am sitting back and allowing this country to be destroyed by the identical tyranny they fought against. Never-the-less, I am proud of my heritage.
Hard to know what to say. Incredible. Bflr
It sounds like the Americans made several attempts to Capture St. Augustine but all failed. Probably due to poor leadership.
Several of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. Only ones I know of are on my paternal side, mainly Luse/Luce. Black River Patriots—New Jersey.
Could join the DAR, but what a pain.
Thank you for this wonderful post.
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