Last evening, during my early American history survey course, we discussed America’s wartime trends. Beginning with the Revolution, I was pleasantly surprised to find that many of students were drawing connections between the hardships endured by Continental soldiers and our current troopers serving in Iraq and Afghanistan. On the issue of supply, the class discussed the inability of the Continental Congress to properly feed the soldiers it was so readily relying on to defeat the British.
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