The Americans had no navy.

The British government had quantities of powder, guns, and clothing, while the Americans had scarcely any military stores of any kind.

Indeed, there were so few guns in the colonies that one British officer thought if the few colonial gunsmiths could be bribed to go away, the Americans would have no guns to fight with after a few months of warfare.
[Illustration: GRAND UNION FLAG.

Hoisted at Cambridge, January, 1776.
The British Union and thirteen stripes,] [Sidenote: Advantages of the Americans.] 134.

Advantages of the Americans .-- All these things were clearly against the Americans.