THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
LEXINGTON CONCORD AND BUNKER HILL THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION BEGINS
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First Continental Congress
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First Continental Army
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Second Continental Congress
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Second Continental Army
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Detailed explanation-1: -Members of the Massachusetts militia were called “"Minutemen, "” because they could supposedly be ready to fight in a minute’s time. Many of the early battles of the Revolution were fought by the Minutemen and other local militias.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Second Continental Congress approved the formation of the continental army on June 14, 1775. The legislation placed the militia forces, then fighting outside Boston, under federal control. These troops formed the nucleus of the army. The date is still celebrated as the birthday of the U.S. Army.
Detailed explanation-3: -When Washington assumed command, the Continental Army truly was not even an army. Rather, it was a loosely and poorly coordinated band of militias and citizen-soldiers under control of the individual states.
Detailed explanation-4: -On the agenda: creating a common army to defend the colonies. A month later, on June 14, the Congress approved the creation of that army, the Continental Army. The new force was made of those militiamen already gathered outside Boston, some 22, 000 of them, plus those in New York, about 5, 000.