Continental Army

American  

noun

American History.

1. the Revolutionary War Army, authorized by the Continental Congress in 1775 and led by George Washington.

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Example Sentences

One Connecticut pastor in 1784 preached a sermon that compared the Continental Army’s soldiers’ deaths to martyrs whose blood should “be ever treated as sacred.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Gen. Nathanael Greene of the Continental Army had already spent more than five years fighting for American independence.

From The Wall Street Journal

One of the rare documents is a diary from William Seymour, which tells of day-to-day life in the Continental Army, including marching barefoot and other hardships that the soldiers suffered “with the greatest patience imaginable.”

From The Wall Street Journal

Their father, Philip, was a major general in the Continental Army, and their mother, Catharine, was a Van Rensselaer, another prominent Dutch lineage.

From The Wall Street Journal

If only our decade had a gallant narrative for the history books to counterbalance all of the sleaziness, like when the Continental Army took over airports during the Revolutionary War.

From Los Angeles Times