Battle+of+Monmouth

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=Americans=

350 casualties in the Battle of Monmouth
=British=

300 casualties in the Battle of Monmouth
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=**The Battle**= ===The [|Battle of Monmouth] was fought on June 28, 1778. It was started as [|General Washington] began to move with his troops down from [|New York] and across the [|Delaware River]. Washington stopped with his troops at the [|Monmouth Court House]ordering them in different directions splitting them into two. Washington was marching down with 4,000 men while the British have 5,000 men. Washington planned for his main army to attack the British from behind. The plan would have worked if [|Lee] did not lose control of his troops. The plan did not succeed due to the fact that [|General Sir Henry Clinton] found out about Washington's plan and turned his army around. During this battle it is said that over a hundred men died of [|heatstroke]. Many men also suffered from [|heat exhaustion] due to the fact that it was the hottest battle of the entire war. This battle is usually referred to as a draw although the Americans had more causalities.===



=**Major General Charles Lee**= ===Lee was part of the [|French and Indian War], Revolutionary War, and part of [|Continental Congress]. When Lee decided to be part of the [|Revolutionary War] he expected to be a general of the Army to his surprise, the position was given to Washington. Some say that Lee was not chosen due to the fact that his unkept appearance, rude language, and high expectation of pay. This was the total and complete opposite of Washington with his clean uniform, proper and polite language, and receiving no pay after the war. This left Lee with as sour feeling towards General Washington. Lee was captured by the British at a battle [|outside of Morristown], when he left his troops to stay at an Inn that night rather than at the American camp his men. In order to be let go of Lee wrote a plan for the British to help them defeat the Americans. He was let free on May 8, 1778.===

===Lee was able to rejoin the Army on May 8, 1778 due to the fact that he still had relations with Congress. Because of the extreme amount of jealousy Lee had for Washington he had a hard time agreeing with his plans. Lee did not want to start battles unless we were guaranteed a win. This truly did not matter though because Washington overruled Lee's opinion. Lee was given his part by Washington as too how to move his troops but did not follow through at the Battle of Monmouth. Washington gave Lee a chance to explain himself, but he had no real answer for why he let his troops get so out of his control. Washington then had to let Lee go due to his inability to cooperate and his inappropriate language while discussing the matter. This was the end of Lee's Army career. Lee would not stop though and was even wounded by [|John Lauren's], who was aiding Washington.===

=**Mary Ludwig Hays**= ===Mary Ludwig Hays, as many of the woman who carried water to the men at battle was nicknames [|Molly Pitcher]. This came from the face that she was always carrying a pitcher of water. Molly Pitcher was a woman who followed along with the [|Army]. She helped with take car of the men while bringing them water from a spring. Molly Pitcher took the place of her husband, William Hays, as a gun man, when her husband became wonded. If she didnt step in she was leaving her husband's [|artillery] unit helpless leading them to have to step down. At the end of the war her and her husband moved back to Pennsylanvia where they were given land for his service. Mary was not the only Molly Pitcher in the Revolutionary. There was also a woman named [|Margaret Corbin], who also took the [|cannon] after her husband was injured in a battle near Manhattan, New York.===