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Very crude groundcloths of "painted canvas" were sometimes secured by the soldier themselves, but at best, the soldier could count on waking wet and cold. In the Civil War, the usual practice was to spread one rubber blanket on the ground, arrange the wool blanket on the rubber blanket, and, if available, spread a second rubber blanket on top ...
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The River Road by Cornelius Krieghoff, 1855 (Three habitants wearing capotes). A capote (French:) or capot (French:) is a long wrap-style wool coat with a hood.. From the early days of the North American fur trade, both indigenous peoples and European Canadian settlers fashioned wool blankets into "capotes" as a means of coping with harsh winters. [1]
Poundmaker carrying a Hudson's Bay point blanket. In the North American fur trade, by 1700, wool blankets accounted for more than 60 per cent of traded goods. [3] French fur trader Germain Maugenest is thought to have advised the HBC to introduce point blankets. [4] Originally point blankets had a single stripe across each end, usually in blue ...
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Uniforms were largely of a single colour, such as the British khaki; [11] but snow camouflage clothes came into use in some armies as the war progressed. [12] [13] For example, Austro-Hungarian troops on the Italian front used skis and wore snow camouflage smocks and overtrousers over their uniforms, and improvised white cloths over their ...
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