The gear given to them by the military was less the adequate for the unforgiving conditions of the northeast, especially when the weather would drop to unforgiving temperatures during the winter months. It had been hard enough for martin and fellow colonial soldiers to have to worry about the possible attack from the redcoats, but also have to fear perishing at the hands of the conditions was dreadful. An example of the dreadful conditions that the soldiers of this war had to endure can be seen as “I had, was to endure this incovenice or to go barefoot, as hundreds of my companions had to, till they might be tracked by their blood upon the rough frozen ground” (Martin 88). What the statement is trying to emphasize is the cold temperatures that came during the winter months, and how many soldiers like martin had to do the best that they could with the little that they had. The quote follows the mention of the desperation of the soldiers and mentions how they were without blankets, clothing, and food of any kind. To go along with these terrible circumstances, they also had to battle the fatigue that they had endured on there long marches that took them from different towns in different areas of colonial