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members. It completed its task on August 20, 1775, and reported its decision to
Washington. The regiments of infantry in the Continental Army were accordingly numbered without reference to their colony of origin. There were thirty-nine "Regiments of Foot in the Army of the United Colonies." In General Orders, Washington often referred to his regiments by these numbers; and they appear in the strength reports compiled by Adjutant General
227:. These, together with similar contingents from the other twelve states, formed the Continental Line. The concept was particularly important in relation to the promotion of commissioned officers. Officers of the Continental Army below the rank of brigadier general were ordinarily ineligible for promotion except in the line of their own state.
345:, 3 from New Hampshire, 16 from Massachusetts, 2 from Rhode Island, and 5 from Connecticut. Each regiment was to have an official establishment of 728 officers and men in eight companies. The regiments were to receive numbers instead of names, and the troops were to be enlisted to serve until December 31, 1776.
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was the brigade commander. Two of the regiments had eight companies each, and one of the regiments had seven companies. (The Rhode Island Train of
Artillery, which was a part of this force, brought the brigade's strength up to 24 companies). Rhode Island infantry regiments initially had an official
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England armies into a single "Continental" Army, on August 5, 1775, General Washington ordered that a board be convened to determine the rank of the regiments at Boston. The board was to consist of a brigadier general as moderator and six field officers as
374:– Organized on January 1, 1777, from the 9th Continental Regiment. Consolidated with the 2nd Rhode Island Regiment on January 1, 1781, and re-designated the Rhode Island Regiment. Re-designated as Olney's Rhode Island Battalion on May 14, 1781. Disbanded on December 25, 1783.
319:. In August 1775, Hitchcock's Regiment was designated "The 14th Regiment of Foot." It served in the siege of Boston until its term of service expired on December 31, 1775. It was reorganized the next day, January 1, 1776, as the 11th Continental Regiment.
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temporary control over certain military decisions that the
Congress ordinarily regarded as its own prerogative. These "dictatorial powers" included the authority to raise sixteen additional Continental infantry regiments at large.
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establishment of 487 officers and men in eight companies (but one regiment had only 427 men in seven companies). The troops were enlisted to serve until
December 31, 1775.
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