The British would've won with a straight cut victory if we just had a civilian militia.
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We had the standing armies of France and Spain on our side east of the Mississippi River. The Spanish armies operated from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. The French military operated on the East Coast.
We had the combined navies of the French, Spanish, and Dutch fleets on our side. This contribute to the British focusing a lot of their military resources to defending the UK... there were other factors as well.
The American Revolution ended up becoming a part of a global war. This war started with the "shot heard around the world." It ended with a shot fired in another part of the world. The war didn't just happen in North America. It also happened in the Caribbean, the seas of Europe, and the seas adjacent to Brazil, and in Asia.
This included battles taking place on some of the adjacent land areas. During our American Revolution, Great Britain feared an invasion from continental Europe.
We started off with nothing but a civilian militia.
Reality hit. The Patriots realized real fast that all the states militias needed coordination. They also realized that the militia wasn't going to get the task done. These, and other factors, convinced the patriots that we needed a standing army.
The Continental Army was formed from among the militia. The remaining militia became auxiliaries. An event later happened that'd transform the Continental Army from being manned by militia men to being manned by "standing army" soldiers.
Now, their attitudes towards those that remained militia changed.
George Washington, a member of the Continental Army, saw how undisciplined the civilian militia was. He saw that they weren't combat ready. He also saw that they were quick to give up the fight.
In fact, George Washington, and most the Continental Army, didn't trust the civilian militia to do their part of the fight. What was one of their solutions to taking care of this? They started to put the civilian militia in the front.
If any of the civilians dared to get up and retreat without shooting the enemy, the Continental Army would've shot them while they ran.
This wouldn't have been necessary had the civilian militia had the discipline to keep fighting when the war dragged out.
Remember Fredrich W. Von Steuben?
He was the guy brought in to instill discipline into the Continental Army, composed of civilian militia. In the process of him doing that, he turned them into a real, standing, army. It wasn't until they got disciplined that they started to see success in the American Revolution... and that triggered a bolder involvement by the European armies to help us.
Until those nations came to our assistance, we were facing a string of defeats against the British and the German mercenaries. It wasn't until the patriots became, and acted, like a standing Army that they started to turn the tides of war in our favor.
Again, without these factors, a civilian militia would've been crushed. Had we not formed a standing Army, and had we not had the benefit of the standing armies of the European powers, we would've had a different opinion today of the patriots... seeing them as traitors and rebels instead.
The Revolutionary War would've been extremely short lived.
Kenneth Farrell: How do you think the revolutionary war was won? Oh yeah, it was a Militia of civilians.
Read my reply.
We had the standing armies of France and Spain on our side east of the Mississippi River. The Spanish armies operated from the Mississippi River to the Appalachian Mountains. The French military operated on the East Coast.
We had the combined navies of the French, Spanish, and Dutch fleets on our side. This contribute to the British focusing a lot of their military resources to defending the UK... there were other factors as well.
The American Revolution ended up becoming a part of a global war. This war started with the "shot heard around the world." It ended with a shot fired in another part of the world. The war didn't just happen in North America. It also happened in the Caribbean, the seas of Europe, and the seas adjacent to Brazil, and in Asia.
This included battles taking place on some of the adjacent land areas. During our American Revolution, Great Britain feared an invasion from continental Europe.
We started off with nothing but a civilian militia.
Reality hit. The Patriots realized real fast that all the states militias needed coordination. They also realized that the militia wasn't going to get the task done. These, and other factors, convinced the patriots that we needed a standing army.
The Continental Army was formed from among the militia. The remaining militia became auxiliaries. An event later happened that'd transform the Continental Army from being manned by militia men to being manned by "standing army" soldiers.
Now, their attitudes towards those that remained militia changed.
George Washington, a member of the Continental Army, saw how undisciplined the civilian militia was. He saw that they weren't combat ready. He also saw that they were quick to give up the fight.
In fact, George Washington, and most the Continental Army, didn't trust the civilian militia to do their part of the fight. What was one of their solutions to taking care of this? They started to put the civilian militia in the front.
If any of the civilians dared to get up and retreat without shooting the enemy, the Continental Army would've shot them while they ran.
This wouldn't have been necessary had the civilian militia had the discipline to keep fighting when the war dragged out.
Remember Fredrich W. Von Steuben?
He was the guy brought in to instill discipline into the Continental Army, composed of civilian militia. In the process of him doing that, he turned them into a real, standing, army. It wasn't until they got disciplined that they started to see success in the American Revolution... and that triggered a bolder involvement by the European armies to help us.
Until those nations came to our assistance, we were facing a string of defeats against the British and the German mercenaries. It wasn't until the patriots became, and acted, like a standing Army that they started to turn the tides of war in our favor.
Again, without these factors, a civilian militia would've been crushed. Had we not formed a standing Army, and had we not had the benefit of the standing armies of the European powers, we would've had a different opinion today of the patriots... seeing them as traitors and rebels instead.
The Revolutionary War would've been extremely short lived.
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