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Christopher Magra

1776’s Declaration of Independence inspired Washington’s troops to fight against the odds – and also helped bring in powerful allies

1776’s Declaration of Independence inspired Washington’s troops to fight against the odds – and also helped bring in powerful allies

(KNOXVILLE, TN) A crowd gathered along the waterfront in New York City in the summer of 1776. The scene they witnessed was terrifying. The largest expeditionary force in British history sailed into the American harbor. Over 300 ships brought 32,000 professional soldiers and Hessian mercenaries to crush a rebellion.

How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution

How out-of-work fishermen saved the American Revolution

(KNOXVILLE, TN) George Washington knew his forces could not win the American Revolutionary War without some measure of sea power. “It follows then as certain as that night succeeds the day,” he later wrote in a letter, “that without a decisive naval force we can do nothing definitive, and with