The majority of it was assembled by the Second Continental Congress because it was a defensive based program. Some have said the war was “unfair” because the british had over eight million residents in the USA in 1775, where the Patriots had less than two …show more content…
One fifth of the Patriot population was made up of slaves. Those numbers are very unequal, but that is enough considering that the most populated colony, which was mostly for Patriots, was Virginia at the time with 440,016 people, which is quite a lot. Most of the war was fought in three states, which were New York, New Jersey, and South Carolina. Alone there was over 200 battles and fights in these states. The way they fought at first in the war was volleying around lead shot at each other and most likely the team with the most men and guns wins. The populations of the two armies were with Britain at approximately 47,000 soldiers and Loyalists at disposal in 1775 alone, where the Continental Army had about 231,000 men over the course of the whole war. They had known the land a lot better than the British, and it is said