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This week episode 276, mutiny in the Continental Army.

Now this week we're going to take a look at one of the darkest hours of the American Revolution.

I've spoken before about the miserable neglect and living conditions of the soldiers throughout most of their enlistments, but especially during winter encampments.

Over the winter of 1780 to 81, most of the attention was going to Nathaniel Green's efforts to recover

control of the Southern states.

Even Green could not get the food and equipment he needed for his soldiers in the field. Up north the

continental army remained in a stalemate. General Washington could not get enough

men together to make a credible attack on the British in New York.

He continued to beg Congress and the states for food, uniforms, and munitions, so that his

army could do more than slowly starve and rot away. Many of the men had to share clothing in order to go outside as their clothes had long worn out and fallen apart.

They did not receive enough food to survive and many showed signs of long-term

malnutrition. It was no surprise that men who had sacrificed years of suffering

for the cause felt like they were being ignored and their efforts

unappreciated by a civilian population. Washington had only five or six thousand

men under his command during the winter encampment.

To help spread out the logistical needs of his army,

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