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Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)

Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan company; London, Macmillan & co., ltd. · leaf 413

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ng words. To theprimitive articles of ab-solute perfection madeby the North Americansavage, namely, thecanoe, snowshoe, andmoccasin, all who hadworn it added thehunting-shirt. These men of Mor-gans wore a motto onthe breast of theirhunting-shirts, —Liberty or Death, —and Patrick Henryscommand of… … Uniform of Continental Officer. Armor, Arms, and Uniforms 699 riflemen thus bore a very good resemblance to thekhaki-clad soldier of the nineteenth-century vol-unteers. In the general orders of Washington, August20, 1776, we find field officers assigned a pinkcockade; captains, white or buff;…

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