The U.S. Army is officially born as the Second Continental Congress founds a united Continental Army to bring the 13 colonies together in the fight for independence from Great Britain.
The Army was founded just months into the American Revolutionary War and predates the signing of the Declaration of Independence by more than a year. The next day, on June 15, George Washington was appointed its Commander-in-Chief. Washington maintained this leadership role throughout the Revolutionary War. From 1775 until the Revolutionary War’s end in 1783, over 231,000 men served in the Continental Army. Of that number, no more than 48,000 men served at one time. The first battle of the Continental Army was Lexington and Concord. More
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