GIVING BRAINIEST FIVE STARS AND HEART! Please answer the following essay question in your OWN words:

Compare the strengths and weaknesses of the British and Americans at the start of the war. Explain your answers.

Your answer should be at least 5-7 sentences in length.

The british (red coats)

Strengths: The British had a well trained army. As well as more soldiers to choose from than the patriots did. Not only did they have a trained army and more soldiers but they also had more money to fight in the war to pay for supplies as well as more soldiers. Also the patriots were fighting THE british who by the way had the number one most powerful navy and well run navy in the world. Also they had more guns plus more ammunition or bullets for those guns.

weaknesses : Although the british definitely had the man power plus money to defeat the patriots they did lack lack in a lot of things that would have probably would have been useful to them. A different uniform would have definitely help them out, their red coats or red uniforms, made them easy targets and prey for the patriots to pinpoint in the wilderness of America. Also the british did not know the terrain very well either.The british were very and a little to overconfident as well as overbearing, and when your over confident it tends to get inside your head that your the best until you become to careless about what your doing. The british also had no motivation ( if you are going to start a war you need a motivation) ,either in the war, some of the soldiers didn't even know what they were even fighting for. Finally the british though they have the best army, they apparently did not even send their best commanding officers, because they thought they didn't need to since the americans probably had no idea what they were doing.

Americans (patriots)

Strengths: Unlike the British the Patriots knew what they were fighting for, they were fighting for their freedom from the british. Also they knew the terrain very well which gave them a great advantage over the british. The war was also a lot more personal to them. They also had a good leadership that also gave them both courage and hope to fight against the british for their family. They also had a very unique war tactic to, the tactic that they used was the hit and run tactic.

Weaknesses: The patriots neither had much money and nor did they have much supplies like the british. They also had an inexperienced militaria while the british had a very experienced military. Their soldiers were very much outnumbered by that of the british army. Plus their army was also poorly trained. The patriots were also playing the rule of the under dog, and were not or had little allies among the colonies.

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they wanted the u.s. to fight on the side of the central powers.