Image: The American Soldier - U.S. Center of Military History

Description: In this scene from one of General Washington's surveys of the lines before Boston, an aide-de-camp in a brown semi-military coat with buff facings and the green ribbon of his position across his chest is seen in the left foreground. In the center foreground General Washington is shown in the blue and buff "suit of regimentals" he had had made that spring, and worn at the sessions of the Second Continental Congress in Philadelphia. The light blue sash on his breast denotes his rank as "Commander in Chief." In the right foreground is Major General Artemas Ward in a plain dark military style coat and the purple sash of a major general over his white small clothes. All three of the foreground figures wear black cockades on their hats as did their British adversaries. In the background are various regiments of General Ward's Division in the motley array of the Continental troops before Boston, the officers distinguished by their cockades.
Title: The American Soldier - U.S. Center of Military History
Credit: United States Army U.S. Army Center of Military History, The American Soldier series: Set 3. CMH Pub 70-1-3.
Author: H. Charles McBarron, Jr.
Usage Terms: Public domain
License: Public domain
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