THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
END OF THE REVOLUTIONARY WAR
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The British had more untrained soldiers
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The American army had self determination and purpose for fighting
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The British army had support from France and Spain
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The American Army had better trained officer for fighting.
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Detailed explanation-1: -British soldiers received more training than soldiers in the Continental Army, especially at the beginning of the war. British soldiers who were married often brought their families with them overseas. Approximately ten percent of British soldiers in New York in 1776 arrived with their wives and children.
Detailed explanation-2: -At the beginning of the war, British forces outnumbered Continental forces; for example, British general William Howe’s expeditionary force in 1776 numbered 32, 000, compared to American general George Washington’s force of less than 20, 000. Britain’s navy was the biggest and strongest in the world.
Detailed explanation-3: -One of the many differences between the American and French Revolutions is that, unlike the French, Americans did not fight for an abstraction. Americans initially took up arms against the British to defend and preserve the traditional rights of Englishmen.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Continental Army was in many ways the same as the British Army since the Continental Army’s officers copied from the structure they knew the best-the British one. The basic organizational unit of the British Army was the regiment. Each regiment of the army had its own administrative structure.