The British Army fought rebels in colonial North America for eight years. Defeat at the Siege of Yorktown to a combined Franco-US force ultimately led to the loss of the Thirteen Colonies in eastern North America, and the concluding Treaty of Paris deprived Britain of many of the gains achieved in the Seven Years' War. However several victories elsewhere meant that much of the British Empire remained intact.
In 1775 the British Army was a volunteer force that numbered just over 45,000 men thinly spread out in various locations globally. The army had suffered from lack of peacetime spending and ineffective recruitment in the decade since the Seven Years' War, circumstances which had left it in a dilapidated state at the outbreak of war in North America. To offset this the British government quickly hired contingents of German mercenaries to serve as auxiliaries alongside the regular army units in campaigns from 1776. Limited army impressment was also introduced in England and Scotland to bolster recruitment in 1778, however the practice proved too unpopular and was proscribed again in 1780.
Members[]
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André, John | Major | No/Deceased | |||
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Arnold, Benedict | Brigadier General | Yes/Alive | |||
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Baker | Ensign | No/Deceased | |||
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Blake | Captain | Yes/Alive | |||
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Braddock, Edward | Major General | No/Deceased | |||
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Champe, John | Sergeant (undercover) |
No/Alive | |||
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Clayton | Ensign | No/Deceased | |||
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Clinton, Henry | General | Yes/Alive | |||
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Cooke, Jonathan | Colonel | Yes/Alive | |||
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Cornwallis, Charles | General | Yes/Alive | |||
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Eastin | Corporal | No/Deceased | |||
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Gamble | Lieutenant | No/Deceased | |||
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Edmund Hewlett's aide | Yes/Alive | |||||
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Hewlett, Edmund | Major | Yes/Alive | |||
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Joyce, Charles | Captain | No/Deceased | |||
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Rogers, Robert | Lieutenant Colonel | No/Alive | |||
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Simcoe, John Graves | Lieutenant Colonel | Yes/Alive | |||
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Wakefield | Captain | No/Deceased | |||
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Woodhull, Abraham | Private (undercover) |
No/Alive | |||
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Woodhull, Thomas | Captain | No/Deceased | |||
Behind the Scenes[]
- Main article: British Army/Real life
Appearances[]
Episode
Turn: Washington's Spies - "Rivals"- Turn: Origins (first appearance)
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Pilot"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Who by Fire"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Of Cabbages and Kings"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Eternity How Long"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Epiphany"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Mr. Culpeper"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Mercy Moment Murder Measure"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Challenge"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Against Thy Neighbor"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "The Battle of Setauket"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Thoughts of a Free Man"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Hard Boiled"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "False Flag"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Men of Blood"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Sealed Fate"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Houses Divided"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Valley Forge"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Providence"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "The Prodigal"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Valediction"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Cold Murdering Bastards"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Benediction"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Hearts and Minds"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Hypocrisy, Fraud, and Tyranny"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Many Mickles Make a Muckle"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Judgment"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Mended"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Blade on the Feather"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Trial and Execution"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Spyhunter General"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "The Black Hole of Calcutta"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Blood for Blood"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Nightmare"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Private Woodhull"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Our Man in New York"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Quarry"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Belly of the Beast"
- Turn: Washington's Spies - "Reckoning"
