Unlike Britain, France, and Russia, the United States has never faced a full on war on its own soil (although some include the War of 1812 in this category)--due mostly to the fact that the US has been so well protected by the Atlantic and Pacific oceans.
I think it’s Cabral or maybe Dias
Yeomen refused to fight in continental army, would only fight in local coalitions, the people refused the military draft ( the government ended up having to pay bounty for them to fight for shorter than original term). In addition, the soldiers were often poor youths, older foreign-born men, ex-convicts, and former indentured servants so they were untrained and unfinished