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When the Second Continental Congress created the Continental Army in 1775, it appointed Charles Lee as the Number Three commander, behind

only George Washington and Artemis Ward.

General Ward had been in command of the New England Army prior to this.

As a lieutenant colonel in the British regulars and as someone who served as a general

in other European armies, Charles Lee seemed to be the most experienced officer in the New Continental

Army, and many people thought he would be a better commander than George Washington.

Lee certainly counted himself among that group.

When the British captured General Lee in late 1776,

many on both sides thought that the war was finished. The Americans had lost their only general with any real experience.

The Army, however, managed to struggle on.

When Lee returned to the army after being exchanged in the spring of

1778, he returned to a much different army. The generals, who had only been

militia commanders at the beginning of the war, by 1778, had nearly three years of combat experience.

The soldiers had received training under General von Steuben at Valley Forge, they looked and felt much more like a professional army.

Lee's time in British captivity was perhaps responsible for the fact that he did not appreciate the

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