@Rosejilly Camouflage was not the point - which is why most militaries of the time used bright uniforms. Battles in the musket era worked in a radically different ways, and being able to identify and command your formations on a battlefield almost completely obscured by gunpowder smoke provided an important advantage.
I seem to recall that France controlled a huge tract of the US from the Gulf of Mexico to the Canadian border and Spain were strong in the Southwest and Florida 🙂
...actually, the action in the 11th cent. by the Normans ended up greatly altering our now-much-richer language (70% of thw thousand most common words in English are of French origin, per my HS French text). So you use a Germanic language with a heavy French overlay...as well as other borrowings, etc.
Your History isn't very good either as the poor inbred English did not conquer North America or even close to it. And you poor folks can't even speak English very well.
