The American Revolution

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The paper analyzes how the issue of underestimating the enemy and a failure to adhere to General North's orders remain central to the British's defeat through miscommunication. The paper examines how, although Howe may have been acting in defiance of General North to gain greater glory by taking Philadelphia, the majority of Howe's failures rest on improper military intelligence. The paper further examines how Burgoyne suffered from a lack of properly gaging the enemy, as he clearly was soundly defeated after three major battles in New York.

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"This historical analysis will reveal and critically evaluate the problem of miscommunication on the part of the British during the American Revolution. By revealing the various British generals involved in the war, one can give the various reasons that miscommunication caused errors in land based strategy and their eventual defeat. In this manner, the British failed to properly evaluate information on the colonials through a series of communication problems in the military hierarchal structure. The British army made a series of military errors through miscommunication, which vastly underestimated the forces of the Massachusetts colonial militia. The battle for Boston was crucial in the beginning of the revolution, since it relied on British intelligence that held the King's Army superior to those of the smaller American militias."

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