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Washington Takes Command

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Washington Takes Command - раздел Лингвистика, - 2001 год - George Washington Washington Takes Command. When He Took Command Of The Army At Cambridge On Ju...

Washington Takes Command. When he took command of the army at Cambridge on July 3, 1775, the majority of Congress was reluctant to adopt measures that denoted independence, although favoring an energetic conduct of the war. The government of Lord North decided to send an overpowering army to America, and to that end tried to recruit 20,000 mercenaries in Russia.

On August 23, George III issued the Royal Proclamation of Rebellion, which branded Washington as guilty of treason and threatend him with condign punishment. Early in October, Washington concluded that in order to win the war the colonies must become independent. In August 1775, Washington insisted to Gen. Thomas Gage, the British commander at Boston, that American officers captured by the British should be treated as prisoners of war not as criminals that is, rebels.

In this, Washington asserted that the conflict was a war between two separate powers and that the Union was on a par with Britain. He defended the rank of American officers as being drawn from the uncorrupted choice of a brave and free people, the purest source and original fountain of all power. In August-September he initiated an expedition for the conquest of Canada and invited the kings subjects there to join the 13 colonies in an indissoluble union.

About the same time he created a navy of six vessels, which he sent out to capture British ships bringing supplies to Boston. Congress had not favored authorizing a navy, then deemed to be an arm of an independent state. Early in November, Washington inaugurated a campaign for arresting, disarming, and detaining the Tories. Because their leaders were agents of the British crown, his policy struck at the highest symbol of Britains authority.

He urged the opening of American ports to French ships and used his prestige and the strength of the army to encourage leaders of the provincial governments to adopt measures that committed their colonies to independence. His influence was evident in the campaigns for independence in Connecticut, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, Virginia, Pennsylvania, and New York. He contributed as much to the decision for independence as any man. The Declaration of Independence was formally adopted on July 4, 1776.

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Largely because of his leadership the Thirteen Colonies had become the United States, a sovereign, independent nation. As commander in chief during the American Revolution, he built a large army,… The British evacuation of Boston in 1776, under Washingtons siege, gave security to nearly all New England. Drawing…

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