According to British historian Jeremy Black the British had significant advantages including a highly trained army the world's largest navy and an efficient system of public finance that could easily fund the war However they seriously misunderstood the depth of support for the American Patriot position and ignored the advice of General Gage misinterpreting the situation as merely a large-scale riot the British government believed that they could overawe the Americans by sending a large military and naval force forcing them to be loyal again:, Following the Battle of Bunker Hill in June 1775 the Patriots had control of Massachusetts outside the Boston city limits and the Loyalists suddenly found themselves on the defensive with no protection from the British army in all 13 colonies Patriots had overthrown their existing governments closing courts and driving away British officials They had elected conventions and "legislatures" that existed outside any legal framework; new constitutions were drawn up in each state to supersede royal charters They declared that they were states not colonies. Supreme Court Justices Tributaries of the South Branch of the Potomac River. . 18 External links Valley Forge Joseph Galloway Pennsylvania 1 Yes. . Formal portrait of Chief Justice John Jay wearing judge's robe! Further information: Civil War Defenses of Washington.
6.7.1 San Patricios Lincoln's image carved into the stone of Mount Rushmore, On the U.S side the war was fought by regiments of regulars and various regiments battalions and companies of volunteers from the different states of the Union as well as Americans and some Mexicans in the California and New Mexico territories On the West Coast the US Navy fielded a battalion of sailors in an attempt to recapture Los Angeles. Although the US Army and Navy were not large at the outbreak of the war the officers were generally well trained and the numbers of enlisted men fairly large compared to Mexico's At the beginning of the war the US Army had eight regiments of infantry (three battalions each) four artillery regiments and three mounted regiments (two dragoons one of mounted rifles) These regiments were supplemented by 10 new regiments (nine of infantry and one of cavalry) raised for one year of service by the act of Congress from February 11 1847. St Clair resigned his commission and Washington replaced him with Revolutionary War hero General Anthony Wayne From 1792 to 1793 Wayne instructed his troops on Indian warfare tactics and instilled discipline which was lacking under St Clair in August 1794 Washington sent Wayne into tribal territory with authority to drive them out by burning their villages and crops in the Maumee Valley. On August 24 the American army under Wayne's leadership defeated the western confederacy at the Battle of Fallen Timbers and the Treaty of Greenville in August 1795 opened up two-thirds of the Ohio Country for American settlement. Formal portrait of Alexander Hamilton part of a dual image of Jefferson and Hamilton. . .
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