Continental Navy

I would not stay in valley forge. Valley forge was probably one of the hardest parts of the revolutionary war. I don’t think I would be able to survive the revolutionary war. There was just too many different things that could kill you all happening at the same place. Here are a few reasons why I wouldn’t stay for valley forge. The first reason is the lack of supplies. The people at valley forge were running out of supplies. Firstly they were running out of food. They stayed there for the whole…

Great Britain’s joint operations in New York and the South during the War of American independence were strategic failures because she misinterpreted the nature of the war and falsely assumed the support of widespread loyalists in the American colonies, especially in the south. (Carpenter, lecture) The lack of strategic coherence throughout the campaigns coupled with governmental misperception and the inability to cut off the American supply support added to the failure as well. The initial…

Your time in Valley Forge is over. Do you stay and be loyal to your brothers or do you leave and never look back. You must make my choice very soon, you could leave and the pain of seeing my brothers die will be over, or you could stay and fight for your freedom such as many men have already done. The decision is to stay. There is many reason but the main choices for staying is many men have gotten sick, you are a faithful servant to your country and you want what you came to the new world for…

French Government to enter the war as their ally. After capturing Fort Ticonderoga, Burgoyne and his troops headed south, giving the American troops time to regroup. General George Washington sent Benedict Arnold, Daniel Morgan, and two brigades of Continentals from the Hudson Highlands. This resulted in the strengthening of Horatio…

Soon March was approaching, and the army was considering one question, "Should we stay in Valley Forge or quit"? Valley Forge was a harsh, frigid place with temperatures low as 33 degrees. During the winter of 1777 and 1778, Washington ordered many soldiers in Valley Forge to fight with him as an army in order to gain freedom from England. However, many soldiers considered the question, "Had you been a soldier at Valley Forge would you have quit?" The definition of quit means not to re-enlist…

Valley Forge, Pennsylvania was George Washington’s winter camp for the Continental Army, in Dec. of 1777 to June 1778. Valley Forge was a difficult place to live in, little food, low supplies, tattered clothes, and no shoes. If you had been in Washington’s army would you have quit? No I wouldn’t have quit because, there was a lot of sick people but not many were dying, Washington was getting help, I don’t want to be a “Summer Soldier. I would not have quit Washington’s army. Even though there…

Alvin York’s first and most difficult battle was fought not on the battlefield, but in his own mind and soul, as he struggled to reconcile his firm belief that God did not want him to deliberately set out to kill another human being with his equally strong belief that it was his duty to defend his country. In his diary, York explains that his mother tried to claim that Alvin was her only means of support and that she needed him at home. He goes on to say that his pastor wrote to the army…

On June 17th 1775 George Washington was appointed the commander of the Continental Army. He would not go back to Mount Vernon anytime soon. Instead, he went back to Mount Vernon 6 years later. Washington never led a large army into battle. Washington and his army barely escaped the New York campaign of 1776. Washington had crossed the Delaware river twice in December 1776. The supply issues had been one of Washington’s greatest rivals. Mount Vernon had once escaped destruction in 1781. The…

The Revolutionary era took place from 1763-1789. There were many key military people in this era. King George lll was the ruler of Great Britain. George Washington was the commander of Continental Army. William Howe was the commander in chief of British Army in North America. Henry Knox was an American general. Nathan Hale was an American soldier and spy. John Burgoyne was a British general who surrendered to American general Horatio Gates. Baron Friedrich Von Steuben was a German…

about how in April, 1775 the British General Thomas Gage ordered his soldiersto destroy American rebel military stores at Concord, Massachusetts. And then during the Winter of 1776, Gereral Henry Knox arrived with artillery to support America's Continental army and men from the state militias.…