Re: BN FMA: Some questions and thoughts

--- Michael Brown <mwbrown@veriomail.com> wrote:

> 3. USMC vs US Army:  The Army, as a Federal force
> was not created until 1776. 

So what was authorized on June 14, 1775?

The following is a description of the birth of the
U.S. Army from Robert Wright, The Continental Army
(Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, 1983),
pp. 23-24: 

The June 14 date is when Congress adopted "the
American Continental Army" after reaching a consensus
position in The Committee of the Whole. This procedure
and the desire for secrecy account for the sparseness
of the official journal entries for the day. The
record indicates only that Congress undertook to raise
ten companies of riflemen, approved an enlistment form
for them, and appointed a committee (including
Washington and Schuyler) to draft rules and
regulations for the government of the army. The
delegates' correspondence, diaries, and subsequent
actions make it clear that they really did much more.
They also accepted responsibility for the existing New
England troops and forces requested for the defense of
the various points in New York. The former were
believed to total 10,000 men; the latter, both New
Yorkers and Connecticut men, another 5,000. 

Sounds like a Federal force to me.  

John 

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