Show DEBT TO washington probably the only man who could have won liberty for the people which me he had to emhuff ter were almott almost insurmountable lack of pro proper training hampered continental in all their battle EORGE washington washington the GEORGE commander ot 1 the american america armies knew better than any one else the lva and defensive valoe value of 1 the for forces under him and ha be lie baa left a vivid arl written ten record of oe the ill relative bt ive value of untrained short hurt term men and of a disipio disciplined dis no it long is teria body nade made of individuals individual of the iacre censa 1 he ha plainly expressed pr ad his bis op opinion on rot fully I 1 confirmed by military men since his time of the army need deed ed ad hy by this country when soon after t the he di disaster santer at camden he wrote to congress congre aa what we need it I 1 la a good army not a large one probably no war we waa ever carried on where the one eldo aide was represent ed in the field by so great a proportion of unorganized troops not under a central mat national ional control ana 4 no vent great commander before or since has haa ever succeeded with so BG rapidly shifting shit ting a body of badly equipped me men bunker hill analyzed at the battle of hunker bunker hill A an rely army of untrained american minute men and militia under the command however of veteran officers ilk like pres prea cott stark putnam and knowlton K A oelton of the higher rank and unions among the lower officers a sprinkling of men expert sd encee in th the a french and english wars fr from behind hastily erected but of value against low pow or er armament calmly resisted isolated two attacks attack or Bell organized and disciplined british voters veterans ns wi with h a I 1 losa to the letter latter of 10 1 4 hilled ed and amed but bul these same troops by virtue not of superior individual cour age but of their combined valor and I 1 discipline e were rallied by their well trained officers made a third charge and although outnumbered succeeded ud in driving the arceal Ar americana cerl at the point of 0 the bayonet from their that trenches 11 their supply ot of powder being ali exhaust ed and their muskets not having bay conets th the american for force was justly proud of its ita ro resistance I 1 stance and of the aal heavy punishment it 11 had bell 1 inflicted 0 11 but the result was nan in spite of its good fight a defeat to its ita arms perhaps only through failure in the quarter masters department the british however carried the hill bill on m account A ot ita better discipline t ot of their line the better control tr ol 01 of their officers and because their supply of ammunition was not exhausted and they there ther by prevented the success ot of ill the A co lo 10 lonial nial in military I 1 I 1 I 1 t A r T plan I 1 continental weakness this story in various ways was many times timea repeated in the war ot of the revolution always with the same a result in spite of the brilliant gon gen era lahip ip ot of washington greene given schuyler huyler Bc leo lee and others the b amerl can cans did not win a on single at victory over the british regular I 1 trompa P who when the latter were not outnumbered A brief exam examination ina I 1 ion of the powers power ot of the continental congress will show what were ever the chief causes of this w weakness I 1 in our mir armilea that led so near to the cc collapse so of our or national nation def defense send and caused the intense anxiety y and distress to and it th the A f f commander in chief aide aida do camp and lie line officers officer 1783 band of patriots about him in the army and oil in congress th the congress con gresa it presented led as able and devoted men a as were ever gathered in a single ingle body but they were not trained in the systematic methods cl cf groat great deliberative bodies and above all 11 represented one me of the very weak est forms runs of governmental power a mere confederacy or league of several eral states or col onlea and without real net governmental functions although it assumed both and legislative powers it had no ku all thili rity to ata revenue A md and could old out only emit bills of credit their redemption being pledged aged by the twelve united col onlea A it Is not of singular that the states into refused to in Burre to this loosely connected congress the control of the militia with officers of state selection election gathered by sacrifice tor for the ot of it its own state A not toro term seeing aa we waa proved eventual so ritually I 1 y that victory into y tor for the colonies colome could ie be won only cut y by by the long term organized and awl ill composing brall but good army squabble over off officer congress in the winter ot of 1776 r rec sing 9 th the A ity ot 1 raising troops to I 1 take k the place of ill those wit whose ter terms aired expired resolved to provide twenty six regiments with power I 1 to wash W A h langton to elect the cers wh which re bulted oil I 1 it in ID many boich for him im and n I 1 his him general officers for a aa A wetah all in ington at wrote I 1 C connecticut wanted no id Is sob sells man in her corps M mas a could boa bee no do necessity tor for he having tug a rhode island tana 1 in hers her and d new low hampshire may it Is very ver 7 hard ard that her experienced officers office a should hould be discarded because her own regiment regi menta A cannot t provide tor for the them november 11 he be wrote many any of the officers expected promotion others other stood aloof 1 af to see aeo what advantage they could make for themselves T the dim ill guidt culty with the soldiers Bold lert was e greater it if possible tia than with the of ill ficera core they refused to enlist list not unless they knew their colonel lieutenant m I 1 A I 1 malor let and it captain put washington in dilemma up to november 19 only men had enlisted by november 28 29 the they y had reached 2600 and they all wanted furlough washington wrote role our situation 1 Is truly alarming and of this general howe la is well apprised it be ba ing the tha common topic ot of conversation when the P people ople left boston last leri day in a private letter of the same time he wrote I 1 such a dearth of pubs pub lie lic spirit such stock jobbing and ter far fully in all the low art arts to obtain ad va vantages in ia this great change of mill tary arrangement I 1 pray god s mercy my 1 I may never see gee again ahat hat w will il be 1 the end of these maneuver man euvera la is b beyond y oil my scan can I 1 arbi tremble at the tha pro prospect t we hole haa been until this time enlist t I 1 continental artillery ing about thirty live hundred men after the last of this mouth month our lines line will bo be so weakened that the mh minutemen allione and at militia I 1 I 1 I 1 t I 1 must be called in A for our or df so and it these being unum under no kind of government will d de stroy the little subordination i have been laboring to establish and run rim me into one evil while I 1 am andeas endeavoring ring to avoid another but t th the A Is less must meet be ba chosen atter after five years ot of experience in A command of the armies washington thus ex expressed P reseed himself in a letter to the president of the congress dated august 20 3 1780 had we formed a permanent army in the beginning which by the c con on tl tauaa nuance of the A same mi men I 1 in A service I 1 ein had bad but been capable of d discipline I 1 inc we never should have bad to retreat with a handful of men across the delaware dole in 1776 6 trembling tor for the fate ot of amer lea which nothing but th the infatuation often u ot of the enemy tiny could he have saved we should not havo have remains remained d at all I 1 the A BUC uc rivalry beeding winter at their mercy with sometimes scarcely a sufficient body or of men A to mount the ordinary guard we should not have been at valley forge destitute of everything in a situation neither to resist nor to ro re tire va a should not have see been A the country ravaged our town burned the inhabitants blundered alund 4 abused bu d murdered with impunity army expenses expanses doubled th the derangement of our fi finances me I 1 is essentially to be ascribed to it th the expenses of the war and tile the ot of PAP paper money have been greatly multiplied by it wo we have a great part ot of the tha time had bad two sets ot of men to feed and to pay the discharged men going home and the levies coming lo in our discipline ties baa been much hurt it II not ruined by much constant changes change there la is every reason to believe that the war sm has been pro traded on this account A little later at A r washington wrote re garding I 1 that hat defeat of general gates at camden regular troops alone are equal to the exigencies of modern war fare as well for defense KB as and who rover rAver a substitute la Is attempt ed it ft must provo prove illusory and ruinous in my ideas of the true system of war the object ought to be to have a good army rather than a largo large one during the entire war the lack of money entailed greatest suffering offering upon t the he army but the men also of the co kontinen con tinen tal army with the exception of one or two regiments menta wore were true to the end and through hunger cold poverty at home nakedness and de feat for this fidelity there them were ware three misiona patriotism training and georga georg |