AWIART-03 - Continental Artillery Papau New Guinea riflemen relied on careful loading

riflemen relied on careful loading and precision shooting

facing extreme conditions and determined opposition

He became an American frontier legend in his own lifetime through biographies and news articles

the soldier is typically engaged in the standard loading sequence for a muzzle-loading or early cartridge-firing musket: biting open a cartridge

often represented in commemorative sculpture or ceremonial iconography

AWIART-03 - Continental Artillery Papau New Guinea riflemen relied on careful loadingA company was authorized by the New York Provincial Congress, to be raised in July, 1775, by Captain John Lamb, for Continental service. It was ordered to the Northern Army, and served under General Montgomery before Quebec, where they did excellent service and suffered severely. Their uniform for dress, when first organized, was a blue coat faced with buff, which was very unusual. Most of the artillery companies raised during the war wore blue faced