Dust Before an Army : Navigating the Fragile Early Continental Army Struggles.DE

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Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - When George Washington arrived at Cambridge, Massachusetts, in July 1775 to take command of the Continental Army, what greeted him was not a fighting force - it was a gathering of farmers, teenage boys, and elected officers who voted on whether to follow orders. Military discipline was virtually nonexistent, most soldiers carried no weapon, and the regiments had assembled with almost none of the supplies required to arm, clothe, or shelter themselves. Washington's first act was not to plan a battle. It was to count his men - a task that took over a week.The structural crises ran deeper than morale. Enlistments expired with the calendar year: by 31 December 1775, fewer than half of the 20,000 men authorized by Congress had been recruited for the new army, forcing Washington to call out militia reinforcements to plug the gap. Critical shortages of arms, ammunition, clothing, tents, and food had plagued the army from its first weeks around Boston, driven by inadequate administrative procedures, the failure of credit, a broken transportation system, and the Continental Congress's legal inability to compel states to contribute money or supplies. Washington wrote to Congress that different regiments were 'upon the point of cutting each other's throats' for firewood near their encampments.The army's internal fractures were no less dangerous than the British lines outside. Officers had been chosen by popularity rather than competence, soldiers operated on a democratic spirit that resisted command, and throughout the war the Continental Army suffered no fewer than 56 recorded mutinies. Discipline, when imposed, walked a knife's edge - too lax and the army dissolved, too harsh and it turned against itself. Washington's ordeal was not simply to defeat the British; it was first to manufacture, from near-nothing, something that resembled an army at all.…

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Titolo
Dust Before an Army : Navigating the Fragile Early Continental Army Struggles.DE
Autore
Idris Reese
Editore
Epubli
Anno di pubblicazione
2026
Condizione
Neu
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Taschenbuch
Lingua
inglese
ISBN 10
356540678X
ISBN 13
9783565406784
Peso dell'articolo
522 grammi
Dimensioni
297x210x9 mm

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