{"id":45323,"date":"2018-11-04T02:00:49","date_gmt":"2018-11-04T07:00:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=45323"},"modified":"2018-10-15T09:42:07","modified_gmt":"2018-10-15T13:42:07","slug":"why-did-soldiers-fight-in-colorful-uniforms-animated-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2018\/11\/04\/why-did-soldiers-fight-in-colorful-uniforms-animated-history\/","title":{"rendered":"Why did Soldiers Fight in Colorful Uniforms? | Animated History"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"center\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"853\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dt_z_83AdH8\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>The Armchair Historian<\/strong><br \/>\n<strong>Published on 12 Oct 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sources:<br \/>\nBarnes, Major R. Money,<em> A History of the Regiments and Uniforms of the British Army<\/em>, London:<br \/>\nSphere Books Limited, 1972<br \/>\nCarman, W.Y., <em>Richard Simkin&#8217;s Uniforms of the British Army; Infantry, Royal Artillery, Royal<br \/>\nEngineers and other corps<\/em>, Exeter, England: Webb &amp; Bower, 1985<br \/>\nChandler, David (Gen.Ed.), <em>The Oxford Illustrated History of the British Army<\/em>, Oxford: Oxford<br \/>\nUniversity Press, 1994<br \/>\nMollo, John, <em>Military Fashion<\/em>, New York, G.P. Putnam&#39;s Sons, 1972<br \/>\nwww.warhistoryonline.com<br \/>\nPolybius, <em>Histories<\/em>, (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.perseus.tufts.edu\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">www.perseus.tufts.edu<\/a>)<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhistoryonline.com\/history\/11-military-uniforms-got-soldiers_killed.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.warhistoryonline.com\/hist&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nAndrew Knighton<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.warhistoryonline.com\/napoleon\/statues-uniforms-napoleon-celebrated.html\" rel=\"noopener\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/www.warhistoryonline.com\/napo&#8230;<\/a><br \/>\nAndrew Knighton<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>The body of this video runs from 0:22 to 5:15. The rest is an extended ad, should you wish to avoid it.<\/p>\n<p>One argument for the adoption of standardized uniforms in the 17th century was to help reduce straggling while the armies were on the move, and to limit desertion (individuals in their bright uniforms were quite visible if they were separated from the rest of their unit). Both straggling and desertion were significant problems for many armies during this period.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Armchair Historian Published on 12 Oct 2018 Sources: Barnes, Major R. Money, A History of the Regiments and Uniforms of the British Army, London: Sphere Books Limited, 1972 Carman, W.Y., Richard Simkin&#8217;s Uniforms of the British Army; Infantry, Royal Artillery, Royal Engineers and other corps, Exeter, England: Webb &amp; Bower, 1985 Chandler, David (Gen.Ed.), [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":35193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62,7,5],"tags":[31],"class_list":["post-45323","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-europe","category-history","category-military","tag-army"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/favicon.png","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-bN1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45323"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45323\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45324,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45323\/revisions\/45324"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}