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The divisional armies fluctuated in size, but usually comprised one to five
brigades. Brigades comprised about 2,500 men commanded by a brigadier (one star)
general. Congress approved 73 generals, 16 of whom had been officers in the British
army (usually captains or majors), 36 in the colonial militias, and 21 with zero
previous military experience. All that Nathanael Greene and Henry Knox knew about
warfare came from reading manuals and military history, yet Greene was one of the
two or three best fighters (after Benedict Arnold), and young Knox (born 1750)
brilliantly handled Washington's artillery.
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