Advantages and Disadvantages of British Army
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- Large Army
- Well-Supplied
- They light weight ain't no way we ain't winning.
- Well-trained and organized army and navy
- pew;pew
- They dead ya'll.
- Three years later....
- British Strengths with a professional army of about 42,000 troops at the beginning of the war. The British forces greatly outnumbered the Continental army. In addition, George III hired 30,000 mercenaries from Germany.
- Far from Britain
- The British forces were well supplied, as well. Unlike the pitifully equipped Continental army, they seldom lacked food, uniforms, weapons, or ammunition. Funds were much more easily raised by the Empire than by the Continental Congress.
- Fighting in unfamiliar territory
- Not gonna lie I think we made a wrong turn.
- Britain's military was the best in the world. Their soldiers were well equipped, well disciplined, well paid, and trained. The British navy dominated the seas. They excelled in large battles fought by a mass of troops on open ground. They also had far more experience firing artillery than Americans had.
- Half-hearted support at home
- Not us spending all this money on a war we loosing, this kind of embarrassing.
- Great Britain had to ship soldiers and supplies across the Atlantic, which was very costly, in order to fight the Revolutionary War. Important messages (orders/news) would take a very long time to travel. It would take months for the slightest shipments which really set back the army.
- Because the British were in unknown territory their Generals couldn't formulate strategies based on location for their armies. Soldiers didn't know the geography and got easily lost. Many of them had never been to the colonies before the war-making them clueless.
- You think Henry.
- King George II failed to convince the British public to support the war. They questioned if it was worth their money and risking the lives of their troops. There was a decrease in the number of troops volunteering and they had to pay more and more men leading to more expenses.
- Who is us, I'm not spending my money?
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