EMERGENCE OF USA
THE AMERICAN REVOLUTIONARY WAR AND ITS IMPACT
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“What methods you can take, you will be the best judge of; but, if you can devise any means to procure a quantity of cattle, or other kind of flesh, for the use of this army, to be at camp in the course of a month, you will render a most essential service to the common cause.”-George Washington, letter to George Clinton (Feb. 16, 1778)Why did General Washington consider the services mentioned in his letter “most essential?”
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Local farmers’ support was high but insufficient.
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Washington felt that officers should receive better rations than other soldiers.
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Redcoats had stolen most of the Continental army’s supplies.
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Low supplies were causing many Continental soldiers to desert.
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