K–12 teaching and learning · from the UNC School of Education

The Battle of Guilford Courthouse

Continental soldiers

Continental soldiers were of all ages and wore a variety of uniforms. They didn’t look like a professional army by European standards, but by 1781, they had learned to fight like one.

Photograph by David Walbert

Continental soliders at a reenactment

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