Camp conditions and the different groups of people (jan 1, 1776 – jan 1, 1781)

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Domestic Affairs Of Soldiers

In camps, soldiers of both sides faced harsh weather, small diets, worn clothes, and unsanitary conditions. This caused mass death due to starvation and thirst, along with mutiny and desertion
In these conditions, soldiers received diseases such as typhus and smallpox resulting in more death.
Camps also had poor medical help as hospitals and medicine weren’t as advanced at the time and couldn’t keep up with the constant death of soldiers and spread of disease.
Valley Forge (Dec 19, 1777 - Jun 19, 1778). Here, patriots faced a shortage of everything from clothing and food to medicine. As a result, many soldiers died of hunger and disease while British soldiers were staying in colonial homes.
Women:
Some followed their husbands to camp to cook, fix clothing, and provide medical help
Other women stayed home to take care of daily life in the colonies
Molly Pitcher is known for bringing soldiers water during the Battle of Monmouth on a hot day. Molly’s work saved many lives because that day almost as many men died of heat stroke than battle. She also replaced her wounded husband to fire artillery.
Margaret Corbin known for fighting at the Battle of Fort Washington and almost dying but survived to live the rest of her life disabled.
Betsy Ross is credited for sewing the first American flag.

Native Americans:
Many fought in the war, tribes such as the Oneidas, the Mohicans and the Mohawks supported the Patriots.
When George Washinton Allowed Black Soldiers to Fight: January 1776

Slaves:
Many fought in the war
Phyllis Wheatley changed the general thought and opinion of slaves by writing excelent poems about the war as an African American slave.
Slaves in Jamaica inspired the Patriot’s use of unorthodox strategies such as geurilla warfare. This is important as these tactics gave the Patriots their only advantage against the larger, more skilled British army


How the patriots financed the war

France officially joins and helps to finance the war (December 17, 1777)
Robert Morris was known as the “financier of the American Revolution.” He helped pay for the war as a merchant, founding father of the US, and member of the Continental Congress. After the war, he became a senator.




Works Cited
“Big Idea 5: Native American Soldiers and Scouts.” Museum of the American Revolution, https://www.amrevmuseum.org/big-idea-5-native-american-soldiers-and-scouts. Accessed 19 October 2022.
“Digital History.” Digital History, https://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/active_learning/explorations/revolution/revolution_slavery.cfm. Accessed 19 October 2022.
“Milestones: 1776–1783.” Milestones: 1776–1783 - Office of the Historian, https://history.state.gov/milestones/1776-1783/b-franklin. Accessed 19 October 2022.
Revere, Paul, and Gilder Lehrman. “African Americans in the US Military: From the Revolution to the World Wars — Google Arts & Culture.” Google Arts & Culture, https://artsandculture.google.com/story/african-americans-in-the-us-military-from-the-revolution-to-the-world-wars-the-gilder-lehrman-institute-of-american-history/2wVhYQ9uBRWnIw?hl=en. Accessed 19 October 2022.
“Women in the American Revolution.” American Battlefield Trust, 26 January 2017, https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/women-american-revolution. Accessed 19 October 2022.

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