... Britain had the most powerful navy in the world, an experienced and well-armed standing army of 48,000 men and the support of tens of thousands of loyalists and Indian tribes. Britain also held the economic advantage as they could rely on the profits from the South Atlantic system and the industrial revolution. So at the beginning of the ... Britain, there would be no more treaties before the colonists gained liberty, sovereignty and independence.[ii] The treaty also opened both nations ports to the others commerce and guaranteed French possessions in the New World. Therefore this allia...

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... supply him with troops, he gradually learned how to deal with authority and how to get what he wanted. As a result of losing so many battles during the war, he quickly learned other strategies to act on. He was sometimes accused of being paranoid and overly precautious; however, he could be very brave when the situation presented itself Washington returned to his ... broke out among Washington's cabinet. The issue concerned the American neutrality during the war between France and England. Because Washington's policy of neutrality frustrated the pro-French supporters of Jefferson, he wa...

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... his major characters: Washington, Nathaniel Greene, Henry Knox, and William Howe. Washington, a Tidewater planter, was also an experienced soldier and surveyor, serving with distinction under Edward Braddock in the French and Indian War. McCullough reminds readers of Washington's background: "Like other planters of the Tidewater, Washington embraced a life very like that of the English gentry. English by ancestry, he was, in ... not remove the stain of defeat from the encounter. If there is a weakness in the narrative of 1776, however, it is in this middle section. Although McCullough de...

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