{"id":677,"date":"2016-07-28T22:40:32","date_gmt":"2016-07-28T22:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/?page_id=677"},"modified":"2017-08-01T19:56:08","modified_gmt":"2017-08-01T19:56:08","slug":"uniforms-of-the-american-revolution","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/uniforms-of-the-american-revolution\/","title":{"rendered":"Drawing of Uniforms of the American Revolution"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_668\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-668\" src=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_1781_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger-1000x610.png\" alt=\"Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, &quot;American soldiers at the siege of Yorktown,&quot; 1781, via Wikimedia. \" width=\"1000\" height=\"610\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_1781_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger-1000x610.png 1000w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_1781_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger-250x153.png 250w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_1781_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger-768x469.png 768w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_1781_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger-500x305.png 500w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_1781_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger-624x381.png 624w, http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-content\/uploads\/Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_1781_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger.png 1678w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-668\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, &#8220;American soldiers at the siege of Yorktown,&#8221; 1781, via <a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File:Soldiers_at_the_siege_of_Yorktown_(1781),_by_Jean-Baptiste-Antoine_DeVerger.png\">Wikimedia<\/a>.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>American soldiers came from a variety of backgrounds and had numerous reasons for fighting with the American army. Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, a French sublieutenant at the Battle of Yorktown, painted this watercolor soon after that battle and chose to depict four men in men military dress: an African American soldier from the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> Rhode Island Regiment, a man in the homespun of the militia, another wearing the common \u201chunting shirt\u201d of the frontier, and the French soldier on the end.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American soldiers came from a variety of backgrounds and had numerous reasons for fighting with the American army. Jean-Baptiste-Antoine DeVerger, a French sublieutenant at the Battle of Yorktown, painted this watercolor soon after that battle and chose to depict four men in men military dress: an African American soldier from the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-677","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=677"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1344,"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/677\/revisions\/1344"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.americanyawp.com\/reader\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}