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

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

George Washington began his command of the Continental Army forbidding the recruitment of Black soldiers, an order he later had to rescind.

From Salon

These troops represented one-quarter of the fighting strength of George Washington’s Continental Army by the march to victory in Yorktown in 1781.

From Washington Post

Lafayette, who had been 19 when he first came to America, was “the last surviving general of the Continental Army,” Icher said.

From Seattle Times

The French general fought in the Continental Army with the American colonists against the British during the American Revolution.

From Washington Times