It was the
strategy of Attrition.<span>Washington saw, particularly
after the fall of New York in 1776, that, despite the fact that his little
armed force couldn't guard every one of the urban areas in America, its
presence only guaranteed that the revolution would proceed. Without a genuine
normal armed force, he stayed away from any definitive conflict with the expert
English forces in favor of a strategy of attrition, fighting just when the
chances were unmistakably to support him.</span>
B. The fire happened in 1871
Resources, land, and lots of money.
Joseph Stalin was so paranoid that he ordered somewhere between 600,000 and 1.2 million people just for thinking that they are against the regime. The great purge was an extreme evidence of the paranoia.