CHAPTER 14.
BUNKER HILL TO TRENTON [Sidenote: Advantages of the British.] 133.

Advantages of the British .-- At first sight it seems as if the Americans were very foolish to fight the British.

There were five or six times as many people in the British Isles as there were in the continental colonies.

The British government had a great standing army.
The Americans had no regular army.

The British government had a great navy.