... Ferguson had shot Washington. The third is the scenario that Daniel Morgan would have lost at Cowpens. Lastly, the scenario that British's plan had worked at Bunker Hill. The first scenario that stood out to me was the one where Washington's army hadn't got away to Manhattan Island. At the battle of Long ... On January 17, 1781 Tarleton arrived at the battle grounds. He messed up though when he made the decision to send his men into battle after an all-night march with no break or breakfast. Morgan's militia attacked them from the rear making Tarleton think that he had pretty much won th...

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... better disciplined, better equipped, and more regularly paid than his American counterpart further, the Redcoats were in far better health over all"(166-7). So with all these statistical advantages, how then could the Continentals possibly have won against the British? One of the stronger, yet simpler reasons ... the armies. For example, McCullough highlights the lives of specific Continental soldiers, like the brave Israel Putnam, a "hero of the Battle of Bunker Hill, who at fifty-seven was known affectionately as 'Old Put'" (34) and small soldiers like Private Joseph Martin, who a...

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