Two centuries of costume in America, MDCXX-MDCCCXX (1903)
Earle, Alice Morse, 1851-1911 · New York, The Macmillan Company; London, Macmillan & Co., ltd. · leaf 483
had been, like every-thing else, originally a French fashion. We haveseen them adopted as an important part of theuniform by the Continental army. In turn, Des-moulins, early in the French Revolution, urgedFrance to follow America in adopting a significantand widely worn cockade, the tricolor. When… … Colonel Brown. The Turn of the Century 747 soldiers of the American Revolution was seized eagerly in 1798 as the symbol of the Federalists. In America, at this turn of the century, matters seemed in a pretty bad way; the rage for gambling
Costume · United States -- Social Life and Customs · United States -- Social life and customs To 1775
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