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Continental Army By:Eric

The Continental Army was made up in merchants, farmers, workers in June 1775 who volunteered for once a year than return to their beloved family. 15,000 men volunteered every year many including African Americans. There were a bunch of woman who helped with healing soldiers, cooking, cleaning, and sewed up many torn clothes. One of the most famous woman was named Deborah Sampson, she pretend to be a boy so she could fight in the battles until she got wounded and went to the infirmary. The doctor discovered her dirty secret when he stopped the wound. The continental congress didn't have a enough money so the soldiers had to provide there own guns, clothes. One of the important things was that the soldiers didn't know how to fight so half the time the soldiers did not know what to do. After a while George Washington was chosen to be the leader of the army and luckily George knew how to fight so he taught the soldiers. He also encouraged them to believe that they could stop the British attacks. The navy was just as bad as the army before they knew how to fight, there ships were just small fishing boats with tiny cannons. Some of the other people in the army were six riflemen, captain, three lieutenants, four sergeants, four corporals, a drummer, a trumpeter, and sixty-eight privates.