American colonial soldier

C4839
concept

An American colonial soldier is an armed militiaman or regular enlisted in the British American colonies who participated in local defense, frontier warfare, and major conflicts such as the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.

All labels observed (8)

Label Occurrences
American Revolutionary War veteran 13
colonial militia officer 3
American Revolutionary War military personnel 2

Description generation (CDg)

The one-sentence description above was generated by prompting gpt-5.1 with the class name and this instruction.

Instruction
generate a one-sentence description for a given conceptual class.
# Response Format
Return only the sentence: "Description: [one-sentence description of the conceptional class]"
Input
Class: American colonial soldier
Generated description
An American colonial soldier is an armed militiaman or regular enlisted in the British American colonies who participated in local defense, frontier warfare, and major conflicts such as the French and Indian War and the American Revolutionary War.

Instances (24)

Instance Via concept surface
Jedidiah Preble colonial American military officer
John Paul Jones Revolutionary War military personnel
Robert Rogers
Henry Rutgers American Revolutionary War veteran
Captain Thomas Lathrop colonial militia officer
Daniel Morgan American Revolutionary War veteran
William Woodford Virginia militia officer
Thomas Sumter American Revolutionary War military personnel
Andrew Pickens American Revolutionary War military personnel
Otho Holland Williams American Revolutionary War veteran
John Claypoole American Revolutionary War veteran
Benjamin Church colonial American military officer
Lachlan McIntosh American Revolutionary War veteran
Daniel Bissell Jr. American Revolutionary War veteran
Tadeusz Kościuszko American Revolutionary War veteran
Philemon Dickinson American Revolutionary War veteran
Major John Buttrick colonial militia officer
Commodore John Barry American Revolutionary War veteran
Elijah Clarke American Revolutionary War veteran
Asael Smith American Revolutionary War veteran
Solomon Mack American Revolutionary War veteran
John Lovewell colonial American military personnel
Thomas Lathrop colonial militia officer
John Claypoole (husband and Revolutionary War veteran)
surface form: John Claypoole
American Revolutionary War veteran