The Pros And Cons Of The American Revolution

The American Revolution was the first war to drive each side to research and develop new medicines, weapons and battle strategies. This was the bloodiest war of its time and it drove each side to try new things. The war drove the two sides to reach the pinnacle of technological advances. The Revolutionary War was a war with many battles between the Colonials and the British to determine the freedom of the colonies. Each side had various advantages and disadvantages as well as tactics new to both sides which is why this is the war that set the technological and strategical hurdle for all wars.
This war was the outcome of the harsh treatment the British empire pit on the thirteen colonies. The British taxed the colonies and made laws and acts

While the British troops were marching towards Lexington and Concord a group of riders including Paul Revere warned the countryside. By the time the British troops arrived in Lexington on the morning April 19th group of seventy seven Minutemen were waiting for them. The Minutemen were unsuccessful in their attack and many of them were killed in this engagement. The soldiers then moved to their next location, Concord. On the way to Concord the British were attacked again and had to return back to Boston under heavy fire of thousands of Minutemen. After this event the war was started. The British began to plan stratifies and battle tactics for the year of 1777. The British had two armies stationed in America at the time, in New York and Quebec. The Lord in London agreed to the campaigns due to inferior plans, miscommunication, and quarrels between the commanders. Although, these campaigns were unsuccessful. Even though General Howe was able to take Philadelphia, the surrender at Saratoga was disastrous for the northern army. The victory at Saratoga is considered to be the turning point of the war because the French entered the war as an ally of the

The colonist were already at a disadvantage and could not put fourth the men to charge the British army and be successful. The colonies because of there shortage in men had to make and use different tactics and battle styles to take the British. Usually the battle would depend on speed as a modern historian has written, “Speed was everything. Speed for the defending force to pour as many bullets into the attacking force as possible; speed for the attacking force to close with its adversary before it had been too severely decimated to have sufficient strength to carry the position..” . Direct situating and fast barrages clarify the noteworthiness of the commitments to the American reason for Baron Friedrich von Steuben. Joining Washington's regulars in their winter settlement at Valley Forge in February 1778, the German nobleman to some degree streamlined the British manual of arms and utilized the new manual to bore the Continental constrain tenaciously and adequately in fast stacking and terminating of the gun. He enhanced their combat zone mobility, as well. Antiquarian Douglas Southall Freeman called von Steuben the "first educator" of the American armed