“The army had nearly disbanded on several occasions during the winters of the war because of the weaknesses of the Continental Congress. ...The delegates could not draft soldiers and had to send requests for regular troops and militia to the states. Congress…could not force anyone to supply them, and the army nearly starved in several winters of war.”
-- Bruce Chadwick, George Washington’s War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency, 2004
The quote from historian Bruce Chadwick reproduced above best represents…
“The army had nearly disbanded on several occasions during the winters of the war because of the weaknesses of the Continental Congress. ...The delegates could not draft soldiers and had to send requests for regular troops and militia to the states. Congress…could not force anyone to supply them, and the army nearly starved in several winters of war.”
-- Bruce Chadwick, George Washington’s War: The Forging of a Revolutionary Leader and the American Presidency, 2004
The quote from historian Bruce Chadwick reproduced above best represents…
The same kind of lack of centralized authority that would lead to calls for a revision or replacement of the Articles of Confederation
The desire of civilian leaders in Congress to be subjected to a strong central authority
The same kinds of problems that the Newburgh Conspirators were eager to fix with the Constitutional Convention of 1787
The deficiencies that plagued the British during the American Revolution
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