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             te, simulataneous events that jointly composed the environment of the American Revolution.
             On the nights before the first shots of Lexington and Concord were fired, England was regarded as the primary world superpower. England¹s powerful Navy and large Army dwarfed the American compliment, and doom lurked everywhere. During the beginning of hostilities from 1775-1776, an American militia began to form in Boston. Colonists were anything but what we would call modern day soldiers. Many of them who were interested in fighting would arrive at the battlefields, fight for a couple of hours, and when the days was over, return home. The states lacked the power to raise an army and even still did not have the money to do so. The first true test of the American militias after Lexington and Concord would come in the summers months of 1775. In June, colonial militias composed up of many independent state militias, surrounded Boston in an attempt to prevent the British from attacking out. The men that composed these militias were poorly trained volunteers whose temper and lack o!
             f discipline hindered any hopes of an immediate organized front. However, people had an innate sense to prove their virtue to society, reflective of the uprising of republicanism, and were willing to die in combat. This sense of a purpose to fight succeeded in holding off the British as the troops held Boston.
             In 1775, the Battle of Bunker Hill served as an early indicator of what path the war would take. The militia was able to hold the British back twice, only to surrender the battle later on. Although this was a loss for the colonists, it proved one important fact; that the British were able to win, but it would cost them greatly. In 1776, General George Washington, whose command of the militia forces in 1775 allowed the armies to begin unification, petitioned the Continental Congress for an effective army. In addressing John Hancock, President ...