Professor John McCurdy

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Betwixt The Sheets: The History of Sex, Scandal & Society · Sex Work in the American Revolution · 17 Apr 2026 podcast

So they have to put together an army on the fly.

They're relying on the states to draft men or to encourage men to volunteer through bounties or payments.

Yeah.

That's impressive.

Right.

Yeah.

Well, and, you know, and luckily the Americans have George Washington because there's really not a lot of other military expertise to lead this army.

So a lot of the officers have not been in a war before on the American side.

Both.

There's probably a lot of popular support.

There's also we think there might be a very strong well of loyalism.

Maybe one in five Americans were still loyal to the king throughout this.

And then there were a lot of people who I'd say would say didn't care or would change their positions back and forth.

This is one of the problems the British run into when the British army goes through the south, the southern colonies.

Initially, there's a great deal of support for the British, but then the soldiers start demanding quarters and supplies and recruits.

And suddenly they're not quite so well loved anymore.

Yeah.

Spreads across the continent in many ways.

So all the major American cities, which are all pretty small by our standards or even by British standards at this point, are occupied or see fighting in the war.

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