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Two armies took the place of battlefields during the Revolutionary War and they were the Patriots or the Continental Army and the British Army or the British Redcoats.
The major difference between a British soldier to a patriot is that the patriots during the American Revolution fought to gain freedom from the British because of their love for their country and heritage. However, the British just fought to regain control.
The Continental Army suffered from lack of experience. They lacked an abundance of deficiencies in clothing, food, ammunition, discipline, and weapons. Therefore, General Washington soon motivated a "protracted war" in which he allowed his weak army to combat Britain's powerful forces through the training of retreats, defensive maneuvers, and surprise attacks.
The Continental Army were short of supplies that were of bare need such as a shortage on weapons and food. The Spanish and the French mostly provided them supplies but it was still......

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