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	Continental Army information - Search.com
		As the Continental Congress increasingly accepted the responsibilities and posture of a legislature for a sovereign state, the role of the Continental Army was the subject of considerable debate.
		The Continental Army of 1777 - 1780 was a result of several critical reforms and political decisions that came about when it was apparent that the British were sending massive forces to put an end to the American revolution.
		The Continental Congress passed the Eighty-eight battalion resolution, ordering each state to contribute forces in proportion to their population, and Washington was given authority to raise additional 15 battalions.
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	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Continental Army
		Army personnel are under the general supervision of the secretary of the army and his adviser, the army chief of staff, who is the army's highest ranking officer and a member of the...
		Continental Army veterans: from outcasts to icons: despite contemporary popular history, our Revolutionary War veteran-forefathers were not always perceived by the public as heroes.
		That Continental Army: The EU is spoiling for a fight -- or at least a military.
	www.encyclopedia.com /SearchResults.aspx?Q=Continental+Army (944 words)

	Continental Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		As the Continental Congress increasingly accepted the responsibilities and posture of a legislature for a sovereign state, the role of the Continental Army was the subject of considerable debate.
		The Continental Army of 1776, reorganized after the initial enlistment period of the soldiers in the 1775 army had expired.
		The Continental Army of 1777 - 1780 was a result of several critical reforms and political decisions that came about when it was apparent that the British were sending massive forces to put an end to the American revolution.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continental_Army (1180 words)

	United States Army - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Continental Army was formed on June 14, 1775, before the establishment of the United States, to meet the demands of the American Revolutionary War.
		The Army of the United States was re-established for the Korean War and Vietnam War and was demobilized upon the suspension of the draft.
		Upon joining the Army, all soldiers (officers and enlisted) must swear (or affirm) an oath to "protect the Constitution of the United States from all enemies, both foreign and domestic." This emphasis on the defense of the United States Constitution illustrates the concern of the framers that the military be subordinate to legitimate civilian authority.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_States_Army (8303 words)

	Continental Army - Simple English Wikipedia
		The Continental Army was the fighting force of the 13 British colonies in the American Revolutionary War.
		The army was officially closed by a resolution of Congress in 1784.
		George Washington was elected the commander-in-chief of the Continental Army when it was formed and served until its disbandment.
	simple.wikipedia.org /wiki/Continental_Army (126 words)

	American Revolution - Revolutionary War Battles, The Continental Army
		The Continental Congress raised eight companies of soldiers, each numbering 120 men.
		George Washington lamented that the Continental Army had "very little discipline, order or government" at the beginning of the Revolutionary War.
		As the war progressed, his soldiers learned European military drill, and combined it with their determination and frontier know-how to defeat the redcoats, one of the world's best-trained and best-equiped armies.
	www.americanrevolution.com /ContinentalArmy.htm (247 words)

	American Revolution - Formation of the Continental Army
		The response of George III and his ministers to the events at Lexington, Concord, and Bunker Hill was a determined effort to subdue the rebellious colonists by force.
		The creation of a Continental Army was in the long run perhaps their most significant achievement.
		This army was enlisted for but a year and the whole troublesome process would have to be repeated at the end of 1776.
	www.americanrevolution.com /AmRevFormArmy.htm (1240 words)

	H-Net Review: Joseph R. Fischer on A Revolutionary People at War: The Continental Army & ...
		The arrival of the army in an area meant that a local farmer could count on his fences being used for firewood and his livestock sacrificed to supplement the army's rations.
		A professional standing army was, after all, a means of oppression not only because of the overt pressures it could exert against a government but also because of the ability it had to corrupt democratic institutions through the pressures pensioners, dependents, and others with financial interests in the military, could bring to bear.
		The army that emerged from Valley Forge in the spring of 1778 was markedly different philosophically from that which emerged in the opening years of the war.
	www.h-net.msu.edu /reviews/showrev.cgi?path=10073864769123 (1356 words)

	Inspector General
		The modern Army IG is an extension of the eyes, ears, voice, and conscience of the commander.
		The Continental Army, when formed in 1775, was a disorganized array of militia from different states, with no uniformity in organizations, procedures, drills, appearance, or equipment.
		The 1986 Goldwater-Nichols Reorganization Act reversed the IG portion of the 1950 Army Reorganization Act in that TIG became responsible to the SA and responsive to the CSA.
	www.first.army.mil /ig/ighistory.htm (2621 words)

	History of the U.S. Army Inspector General
		The Continental Army's leadership was not comparable to the good, solid officer leadership of the British Army, and General Washington was not satisfied with the training and readiness of his diversified forces.
		Steuben was a former captain in the Prussian Army.
		In FY 61, instruction was presented to Republic of Korea Army officers in Seoul, Korea, and to Nationalist Chinese Army Officers in Taipei, Formosa.
	wwwpublic.ignet.army.mil /History_of_the_IG.htm (1986 words)

	The Continental Army: Chapter Six
		When in September 1776 Congress approved raising an army to serve for the duration of the war, it broke with the militia tradition without serious debate because the military commanders insisted that such a force was necessary to win victory.
		The growing sophistication of the Continental Army, inspired in part by foreign volunteers, was reflected also in improvements introduced in 1778 and 1779 in the organization of supporting troops.
		In 1777 Washington issued standing orders directing Continental officers to use their spare time to read "military authors." Foreign observers recognized that this official policy was a sign of growing professionalism, and a number contributed their time and advice to foster the trend.
	www.historycarper.com /resources/tca/chap6.htm (13713 words)

	The Valley Forge Winter by Wayne Bodle
		The armies were engaged with each other more in an allegorical than a military sense; the one comfortably lodged in Philadelphia while the other shivered in the wilderness.
		Coryell’s Ferry was the northern portal to the region, through which most of the Continental Army entered Pennsylvania in the summer of 1777, and by which it left the area a year later.
		This was appropriate, because Washington’s use of the army in the north for the rest of the war was a loosely-adapted version of its deployment in Pennsylvania.
	www.psupress.org /Justataste/samplechapters/justatasteBodle.html (4505 words)

	George Washington's Army: Historical Reenactors of America's 18th Century Heritage
		Regular United States Infantry were known as "Continentals" or the "Continental Line." Contrary to common perception the American Revolution was not ultimately won merely by brave but undisciplined volunteers.
		As early as 1775 the Continental Congress made an attempt at a degree of uniformity with the choice of brown coats as official with facing colors to vary by regiment.
		We are not developing this army haphazardly and again we don't want to see anyone waste their time or money and have to backtrack.
	www.georgewashingtonsarmy.com (2755 words)

	US MILITARY LEADERSHIP - Official Recommendations
		The Continental Army was formed on June 14, 1775, before the establishment of the United States, to meet the demands of the American Revolutionary War.
		The structure of the US Army was constitutionally established as the Regular Army, the units of the State Militias when called to federal service, and units of Volunteers that were established for the duration of the emergency.
		The Army of the United States was re-established for the Korean War and Vietnam War and was demobilized upon the suspension of the draft.
	www.hitechcj.com /afrl/army_history.html (4622 words)

	The Army Medical Department 1775-1818: Evolution of the Continental Army Medical Department
		On 27 July, the Continental Congress, in a brief resolution, created for a Continental Army of approximately twenty thousand men what was termed in the language of the day "an Hospital" or, in modern terms, a hospital system or medical department, whose physicians were not, however, given military rank.
		The winter of 1780-81 was a tragic one for the Continental Army and particularly for the Hospital Department.
		Even in the summer of 1781, Army patients were "suffering extreme distress for stores of every kind," physicians were being asked to furnish their own instruments, and Bond, as Purveyor, was being urged to turn once again to the ladies of surrounding communities to obtain old linens for dressings.
	history.amedd.army.mil /booksdocs/rev/gillett1/ch2.htm (11679 words)

	The Continental Army
		The Second Continental Congress, then meeting at Philadelphia, (the lawmakers) chose as commander of the "Continental Army" George Washington, a 43-year-old delegate from Virginia, a planter and a ranking militia officer in the French and Indian Wars.
		The Continental Congress itself had as its rivals the 13 state legislatures, which often chose not to cooperate with their delegates in Philadelphia.
		American officers who had fought with the British army in the French and Indian Wars, observing its procedures and reading the standard military treatises, found in the Revolution that the pattern of warfare as practiced by the so-called experts had hardly changed at all.
	www.americanrevwar.homestead.com /files/CONTAR.HTM (1140 words)

	About the Reenacting Unit - Geographers Department, Continental Army, 1777-1783
		The Department of the Geographer to the Army is the recreated mapmaking unit of General Washington's Continental Army Staff.
		In the Continental Army, military engineers were generally recruited from Europe, whereas the geographers were generally able to find skilled surveyors in the colonies.
		It is the goal of this unit to give an accurate, authentic representation of a Continental Army staff department, including proper clothing, equipment and instruments, and skills and knowledge of the geographers' profession as well as the theatre of operations and campaigns within.
	www.armygeographer.org /about (1314 words)

	A Brief History of Army Depots
		Brigadier General Henry Knox, the Continental Army Chief of Artillery, played a key role in the organization of ordnance facilities for the construction, repair, storage and issuance of artillery and other ordnance equipment during the American Revolutionary War.
		The Army Ordnance Department was established in 1812, partly to supervise the armories, arsenals and storage depots being built during this era.
		Sharpe Army Depot was originally constructed in 1942 as the Lathrop Holding and Reconsignment Point and the Lathrop Engineer Depot to store supplies for the Port of Stockton, a nearby deepwater port of embarkation.
	www.amc.army.mil /amc/ho/studies/depot_history.html (3954 words)

	Brave and Gallant Soldiers: African Americans and the Continental Army
		Even so, during the American Revolution, Euro-American Continental Army officers and enlisted men recognized the necessity of tapping into the manpower available in the colonial African American population and embraced (although at times hesitantly) the inclusion of the African American citizen-soldier in the contest for American independence.
		In spite of colonial militia policies prior to the formal creation of the Continental Army, African Americans had already begun to take part in the hostilities in and around the city of Boston.
		The Continental Army’s commander, Virginian George Washington, included in his Orderly Book for November 12, 1775, the mandate that African Americans, free or otherwise, no longer be enlisted in the army.
	www.history.org /history/teaching/enewsletter/volume5/october06/soldiers.cfm (4350 words)

	American Realities, The Continental Army
		To participate in the Revolutionary War in the year of independence was to be at one moment a soldier in a victorious army of well-disciplined soldiers, at another a refugee in a disorderly rout of farmers and artisans.
		The Continental army was both the symbol and the agent of that dream.
		When in 1775 the Continental Congress determined that there should be a national army to fight the British, the tall, distinguished southerner was an obvious choice.
	www.narhist.ewu.edu /ar/revolution/revolution.html (452 words)

	A Brief Profile of the Continental Army
		An initial expectation of the history of the Continental Army might be that it was a relatively uniform and consistent military force which served from 1775 through 1783.
		In reality, however, the nature of the army was strongly influenced by economics and by traditional perceptions of and biases against a “standing army”, this influence being strongly reflected through the decisions and actions of the army’s “employer,” the Continental Congress.
		Although the popularized image of Washington’s army is one dominated by the service of militia “minutemen” and riflemen guerrilla forces, in reality the army command strongly desired to duplicate the professional appearance, discipline and capabilities of an eighteenth-century European military force.
	www.revwar75.com /ob/profile.htm (360 words)

	History of the U.S. Army Time Table
		The army fought American Indians on the plains, southeast, southwest, and Pacific Northwest, driving them from their native lands onto reservations.
		The army trained for the long-distance, limited wars of the Cold War by moving 15,000 troops to West Germany with its new airmobile division.
		The army was caught off guard by a series of scattered diversionary attacks, when the Vietcong successfully launched a major offensive.
	www.u-s-history.com /pages/h1963.html (1635 words)

	Creating a Contintental Army
		It was a long and difficult road from the Continental Congress's edict designating the militia around Boston as a Continental Army and creating such an army in fact.
		The latter, Washington believed, was what the Continental Army needed to become if the colonies were to stand up to the British army.
		Continental Congress Resolve on the Principal Supplies of the Army, December 10, 1777
	memory.loc.gov /learn/features/timeline/amrev/contarmy/contarmy.html (399 words)

	Nathanael Greene and the Supply of the Continental Army
		Moreover, when two large armies occupied the same region, as was the case in the Philadelphia-Valley Forge area in the winter of 1777-78, their demands created a local scarcity of supplies.
		In addition to these requisites in a Quartermaster General, economy in, providing for the wants of an army, proper arrangements in the distribution of their supplies, and a careful eye to the use of them, are of great importance and call for a circumspect choice.
		The plight of the Continental Army encamped at Jockey Hollow, near Morristown, New Jersey, in the winter of 1779-80 was as bad as, or even worse than, it had been at Valley Forge.
	www.qmfound.com /greene.htm (2446 words)

	CONTINENTAL ARMY COMMAND (CONARC)
		As both were Army brats, and had over twenty-five years at that time together in the service, it was the first time in their experience that they knew only one couple on post when they arrived, the Millers.
		With the help of the Army Signal Corps we were able to hook up a closed circuit TV in the van that housed the printer, then display the TV picture of the printout on the TV in the War Room.
		Some of the other Army services and branches of the Army, such as logistics, intelligence, engineers, medical, and signal, were either using their own punched card equipment, or making plans to do so since The Adjutant General was not providing the support they needed.
	www.boultonmiller.com /Chapter5Sec3.htm (11918 words)

	The Continental Army
		An army's doctrine—a theory on employing force which is taught to the army and is based on carefully worked out principles—in turn reveals how well that army's leaders understand their own organization and the situation in which they intend to fight.
		We then assumed that the Continental Army's organizational history was simple, that we could produce a short narrative relatively quickly, and that the book would serve primarily as a reference tool by including lineage (outline histories) of the approximately 200 regiments and smaller units which made up that Army.
		THE CONTINENTAL REGIMENTS OF 1776: BOSTON AND QUEBEC
	www.army.mil /cmh-pg/books/revwar/contarmy/ca-fm.htm (1639 words)

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