A Vintage Colour Lithograph of "Battalion Private" (Brunswick Infantry Regiment Specht) From an original drawing by Clyde A. Risley Produced by Historical Publications, Saddle River, N.J. Circa 1968 This item comprises the portrait as described above in good condition. This is a genuine vintage item being over 40 years old - NOT a modern reproduction. FORMAT Overall Size:- 8 1/4 " x 11 3/4" including the margin. Image Size:- 5" x 7" approx About the subject... BRUNSWICK INFANTRY REGT. von SPECHT, . Arrived Quebec, Canada, 17 Sept. 1776. Principal engagements: Ticonderoga, Hubbardton, Freeman's Farm, Bemis Heights, Saratoga. Upon arrival in Canada, the German regiments were uniformly equipped with knee high black cloth gaiters buttoned with from 12 to 18 metal buttons. For service in America they were equipped with the American "over-all," a loose fitting high waisted garment that strapped under the instep and buttoned snugly at the ankle with four or five buttons. This garment was supplied by the British from salvaged tentage and sails and from surplus naval stores of seamans trousers made of blue and white or red and white striped "tiken." German drummers and musicians of this period were distinguished by elaborate braid trimmings on the regimental coat. The drum aprons were of brown or white leather. The drums were brass shelled with embossed coats-of-arms. The drum ropes were tightened by means of the "slit-tie" leather keepers and the snares by a turn-screw. The Princely colors reversed the colors of the field and flames of the Regimental colors. Thus the regimental colors of this regiment had white flames on a red field. The same held true far the other Brunswick Infantry regiments. - - - - - - - - - - - - AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), the American War of Independence, or simply the Revolutionary War to many Americans, began as a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers, such as conflicts in India and West Africa between Great Britain and France.The war was the result of the political American Revolution. Colonists galvanized around the position that the Stamp Act of 1765, imposed by Parliament of Great Britain, was unconstitutional. The British Parliament insisted it had the right to tax colonists. The colonists claimed that, as they were British subjects, taxation without representation was illegal. The American colonists formed a unifying Continental Congress and a shadow government in each colony, though ostensibly claiming loyalty to the monarch and a place in the British Empire. The American boycott of directly taxed British tea led to the Boston Tea Party in 1773. London responded by ending self-government in Massachusetts and putting it under the control of the British army with General Thomas Gage as governor. In April 1775 Gage learned that weapons were being gathered in Concord, and he sent British troops to seize and destroy them. Local militia confronted the troops and exchanged fire (see Battles of Lexington and Concord). After repeated pleas to the British monarchy for intervention with Parliament, any chance of a compromise ended when the Congress were declared traitors by royal decree, and they responded by declaring the independence of a a new sovereign nation external to the British Empire, the United States of America, on July 4, 1776. American Loyalists rejected the Declaration, which received limited international recognition. Attempts to expand the rebellion into Quebec and the Floridas were unsuccessful.France, Spain and the Dutch Republic all secretly provided supplies, ammunition and weapons to the revolutionaries starting early in 1776. After early British success, the war became a standoff.