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I'm confused by the purpose of this article. Is it to...
If it's one of the first two, wouldn't it be more suitable to expand/write articles about the individual state navies, and join them by a List of state navies in the American Revolutionary War?
(Note that I just did a significant expansion of Massachusetts State Navy -- there is more than enough material to support doing things this way.)
I'm also confused by the name of this article. The word "Marines" implies (to me, anyway), amphibious warfare, where this seems to be more about naval operations, some of which have amphibious components.
-- Magic ♪piano 22:18, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
P.S. There is a factual error in the article (currently uncited, but the editor's source may be wrong on this count). The first naval engagement of the war was the Battle of Machias (June 11-12, 1775). Magic ♪piano 22:18, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
If this helps, there are much more details, albeit it pertains to the Continental and the latter United States Marines, on my wikibook page that I have been slowly developing. Care free to check it out if you want... Definitive History of the United States Marine Corps. This part is only covering the institution, which I consider the backbone, the most important entity of history; the organizations, and operations will be elaborated later when I lay down all the available resources.
I'm glad that you asked questions like these, last thing I need is to confuse anyone. The beginning days of our military structure was really confusing at is was, no organized military whatsoever. Ask more if you feel that my answers don't settle things. I hope this helped. RekonDog ( talk) 07:14, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
This article states, "The 2nd Continental Congress passed a resolution on 10 June 1775, in creating the Continental Army from all the available colonial forces and militias around Boston; they appointed George Washington, a Congressman of Virginia, as the Commanding General of the Continental Army” This is incorrect and from the Journal of the American Congress, there is nothing mentioned of doing anything with an army or John Adams or George Washington. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc0021)) Also, George Washington is not even mentioned in connection to the army in Massachusetts until the 16th of June 1775. The entire paragraph needs to be stricken for false information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Committee of Correspondence ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 10 June 2013 (UTC)
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I'm confused by the purpose of this article. Is it to...
If it's one of the first two, wouldn't it be more suitable to expand/write articles about the individual state navies, and join them by a List of state navies in the American Revolutionary War?
(Note that I just did a significant expansion of Massachusetts State Navy -- there is more than enough material to support doing things this way.)
I'm also confused by the name of this article. The word "Marines" implies (to me, anyway), amphibious warfare, where this seems to be more about naval operations, some of which have amphibious components.
-- Magic ♪piano 22:18, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
P.S. There is a factual error in the article (currently uncited, but the editor's source may be wrong on this count). The first naval engagement of the war was the Battle of Machias (June 11-12, 1775). Magic ♪piano 22:18, 20 January 2010 (UTC)
If this helps, there are much more details, albeit it pertains to the Continental and the latter United States Marines, on my wikibook page that I have been slowly developing. Care free to check it out if you want... Definitive History of the United States Marine Corps. This part is only covering the institution, which I consider the backbone, the most important entity of history; the organizations, and operations will be elaborated later when I lay down all the available resources.
I'm glad that you asked questions like these, last thing I need is to confuse anyone. The beginning days of our military structure was really confusing at is was, no organized military whatsoever. Ask more if you feel that my answers don't settle things. I hope this helped. RekonDog ( talk) 07:14, 21 January 2010 (UTC)
This article states, "The 2nd Continental Congress passed a resolution on 10 June 1775, in creating the Continental Army from all the available colonial forces and militias around Boston; they appointed George Washington, a Congressman of Virginia, as the Commanding General of the Continental Army” This is incorrect and from the Journal of the American Congress, there is nothing mentioned of doing anything with an army or John Adams or George Washington. http://memory.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/r?ammem/hlaw:@field(DOCID+@lit(jc0021)) Also, George Washington is not even mentioned in connection to the army in Massachusetts until the 16th of June 1775. The entire paragraph needs to be stricken for false information. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Committee of Correspondence ( talk • contribs) 04:18, 10 June 2013 (UTC)