Original U.S. American Revolutionary War Era Cheesebox Canteen with Square Hole & Iron Bands Category_Receiver Year of Manufacture: 1846

Year of Manufacture: 1846

and the right facet is dated 1898

Overall length of the musket is 54 inches

Around 7 pm (19:00)

2nd 14 platoon

Original U.S. American Revolutionary War Era Cheesebox Canteen with Square Hole & Iron Bands Category_Receiver Year of Manufacture: 1846Original Item. Only One Available. While the Continental Forces certainly preferred lightweight tin water vessels like those carried by the British soldier, stocks of that metal dried up even before the Revolution was a year old as the British blockade of American seaports tightened. By the spring of 1776, with the summer campaign ahead, the availability of canteens of any kind was essentially gone and Congress turned to the production of wooden