RevWar--American Colonial Reenactment Units

RevWar Parent Organizations

Listed below, are the different parent organizations for reenacting the American Revolution.

Note: In order to promote clarity and order, we will use the abbreviation
conventions defined by RevWar.com!

Brigade of the American Revolution [BAR]--The Brigade is a non-profit living history association dedicated to recreating the life and times of the common soldier of the American War for Independence, 1775-1783. Members represent elements of all the armies then involved: Continental, Militia, British, Loyalist, German, French, Spanish, and Native American forces plus civilian men, women and children.

Since 1962 the Brigade has been recreating a broad spectrum of the 18th Century. It's activities include military encampments, tactical exercises, firelock shooting competitions, craft demonstrations and social activities. The Brigade also conducts annual schools and educational seminars featuring experts from several fields of 18th Century study.

The Brigade maintains a modest research library and publishes an educational journal, The Brigade Dispatch, a regularly scheduled newsletter, the "Brigade Courier", and periodic instructional booklets and papers.

Membership is open to all persons.

British Brigade [BBG]--The British Brigade, Inc. is chartered by the New York State Board of Regents to honour the memories of those British and American soldiers and their families who served their country while fighting and dying for their beliefs and loyalties during the American War of Independence.

We endeavour to portray various aspects of the lives of these men and women by bringing together hundreds of soldiers and campfollowers to educate the public at weekend encampments. A field force of The King's Army in British North America can be seen camped in the manner of the British Army of the period. Here one can see tent lined streets filled with red, blue and green coated men performing their daily duties as well as practicing drills and manoeuvres.

At least twice a weekend the Army forms for battle against the Rebel forces where one can see, amid the clouds of powder smoke and crash of musketry, battalions of men manoeuvreing into action against their foes. Here infantry, artillery and cavalry recreate the detailed evolutions of the 18th century's most famous army.

Burning of The Valleys Military Association [BVMA]--The Burning of the Valleys Military Association [BVMA] is composed of units which reenact, mostly, the Revolutionary War in the Mohawk, Schoharie and Upper Hudson Valleys. The war in the valleys was really a 'civil' war conducted mostly by former neighbors and estranged relatives. In the three year period from 1778 to 1781 a little over two thirds of the valleys were burned to the ground and a little under one third of the civilian population carried away or killed, thus the period was referred to as 'The Destructives'.

Connecticut Colony Military Association [CCMA]--The CCMA is an organization formed to recreate and perpetuate the 18th century Military and Civilian history of the American Revolutionary War period.

We also research, preserve and reproduce 18th century practices, culture, dress and articles manufactured and used during the period of 1775-1783.

Continental Line (USA) [CTL]--The Continental Line, Inc., established in 1987 and incorporated in 1995, is a non-profit educational organization of recreated units representing the Continental Army, the various colonial militias, the Continental Navy, the Continental Marines, and units in the service of the French King during the American Revolution.

The Line, organized to promote a better knowledge and understanding among its member units and the general public of that period in the history of the United States during which our nation won its independence from Great Britain, assembles units from South Carolina to New Hampshire to share in public battle scenarios, 18th Century diversions, as well as various aspects and interpretations of a soldier’s life during the The American Revolution.

Gesellschaft für Hessische Militär- und Zivilgeschichte (Society of Hessian Military- and Civil History) (Germany) [GHMZ]--To present Hessian history of the 18th and early 19th century in a vivid manner is the main objective of the "Gesellschaft für Hessische Militaer- und Zivilgeschichte" (Society of Hessian Military- and Civil History]. Our research on aspects of Hessian history which are sometimes neglected or even misinterpreted is documented in different ways, for example with publications, lectures or exhibitions. But nevertheless living history is our main activity. Using uniforms and accoutrements which are reconstructed as close as possible to the originals, we try to take our spectators and ourselves into the world as it might have looked like 200 years ago…

Living History Association (USA, I think) [LHA]--A non-profit historical and educational organization dedicated to accurate re-creations of history. [Okay, this is all their site says... sorry. They DO have some neat info on insurance, but, that's it.]

Northern Brigade of the Museum of Applied Military History (Canada) [NBMAMH]--An umbrella organisation covering military history from 1750-1945. [Like the LHA, not much to read, but a few links... hey, they're Canadian!]

Northwest Territory Alliance (USA) [NWTA]--The Northwest Territory Alliance (NWTA) is an American Revolutionary War reeanctment organization located in the American Midwest. We have over five hundred members from states as far west as Iowa, east to Ohio, north to the Canadian border and south to Tennessee.

The NWTA is a non-profit educational organization that studies and recreates the culture, lifestyle, and arts of the time of the American Revolution, 1775-1783. We strive to duplicate the uniforms, weapons, battlefield tactics and camp life of the era as accurately as possible.

Southern Crown Forces (USA) [SCF]--We are an affiliation of Units of 18th century military reenactors specializing in the Forces of His Most Britannic Majesty George the Third here in the American Colonies during the American Revolution. We regret these pages are constantly under some construction and hope you will return soon to learn what is new with the 18th century

The Woodland Confederacy [WC] (USA)--The Woodland Confederacy is a historical re-enactment organization dedicated to portraying Native Americans of the eastern woodlands. With a membership of over fifty friends and families, we depict the native peoples of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, from early colonial contact, to the Seven Years War in America (also known as the French & Indian War) through the American Revolution.