This week, a lecture about the American military in the Revolutionary War.

Baylor University professor Julianne Sweet teaches a class about the American military during

the Revolutionary War, including a look at the equipment and capabilities of both the

Continental Army and Militia troops.

Every man between the ages of 16 and 60 will be a member of your local militia.

You will maintain your firearm.

You will attend drill once a month, or you'll be fined.

And you're the go-to guys.

All right, if something happens, if there's some disorder or uprising among other farmers or with some

sort of enemy or the Indians arrive or whatever, these are the guys you call who grab their

guns and go. Professor Sweet also compares the advantages and disadvantages of the American and

British forces.

When we last met, you all declared independence.

So that means we have to go to war.

And so in order to do that, we need to recruit our troops.

We need to train them.

We need to drill them.

We need to arm them, all those sorts of good things good things before we do that i want to talk just briefly about military history in general we're going to set aside

our political our political history for now next couple weeks it weeks, it's military history, all full go, all full go.

So here's the thing.

There's certain challenges that folks who study military history are going to encounter, like what?

What are some of the things that you can see military historians having problems with?

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