Dear Sir, with great interest, I read “The Fort”. You forward, though, the idea that the green uniforms of the later British rifle formations might come from the green uniforms of the US Marines J. Moore encountered at Penobscot. Isn’t it rather inherited from the German (e. g., Hesse or Ansbach) Jäger units fighting in British pay in North America (e. g., the later Prussian Field Marshal von Gneisenau, Blücher’s Chief of Staff during the Waterloo campaign, and instrumental in the Prussians arriving in time, served with the Ansbach Jäger Corps in north America)? Was Moore instrumental in choosing green, at all? I think, the Hesse Jäger even had a written manual, of course in German. By the way, perhaps you look up on Wikipedia “Johann Gottfried Seume”. He was a German writer and poet who served with the Hesse Jäger Battalion in North America, and later became a commissioned (Russian) officer promoted from the ranks. Sincerely, yours D. Rottgardt