Bumbo (also known as bombo or bumboo) was a Colonial era drink made from rum, water, sugar, and nutmeg. “Yankee Peas” (British army term) refers to the Buckshot that American troops, particularly militia, sometimes loaded their muskets with as well as a standard musket ball to inflict more casualties at close range. So we therefore have a combination of the frivolous and the more serious side of the AWI in this Blog. I hope you will find it both interesting and humorous.