Strengths+and+Weaknesses+of+the+British+Army

The Strengths and Weaknessess of the British Army By Alexis Philippe and Blake Pilas  The British Army had many advantages and disadvantages. The British had a very professional and strict army but it was very small unlike, the colonists who just took a lot of people and taught them how to fight. They also had very powerful weapons that the Patriots didn’t have because the colonists had less money than England. The only problem was that it was hard to resupply because England was across the ocean and it would take weeks to get the supplies. It was hard to get more food, more troops, and gun powder…all necessary for a war. Even though, England had the most powerful navy in the world at the time and a fairly good army but the British had a hard time adapting to the Guerilla tactics, which were tactics that the Patriots used. The Patriots would ambush the British and would hide behind trees; the British weren’t ready for those tactics. Since most of the land wasn’t clear in the colonies, it made it really hard for the Red Coats to get past the Guerilla tactics. The British was thought to win the war with all their advantages but, really they had a lot of disadvantages too. If the British had more troops and more supplies then maybe they could have won the war. ** · "Military." //The On-line Institute for Advanced Loyalist Studies// N.p., 1 Feb. 2001. Web. 3 Dec. 2009. · Deverell, William, and Deborah Gray White. // United States //// History: Beginning to 1914 //. Austin: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 2007. Print. · Hiffinbotham, Don. //An American Revolution Website// N.p., 2004. Web. 3 Dec. 2009.
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