What major point was thomas paine trying to make using the evidence in this passage?

while our army was collected, howe dared not risk a battle; and it is no credit to him that he decamped from the white plains, and waited a mean opportunity to ravage the defenceless jerseys; but it is great credit to us, that, with a handful of men, we sustained an orderly retreat for near an hundred miles, brought off our ammunition, all our field pieces, the greatest part of our stores, and had four rivers to pass. none can say that our retreat was precipitate, for we were near three weeks in performing it, that the country might have time to come in. twice we marched back to meet the enemy, and remained out till dark. the sign of fear was not seen in our camp, and had not some of the cowardly and disaffected inhabitants spread false alarms through the country, the jerseys had never been ravaged. once more we are again collected and collecting; our new army at both ends of the continent is recruiting fast, and we shall be able to open the next campaign with sixty thousand men, well armed and clothed. this is our situation, and who will may know it. by perseverance and fortitude we have the prospect of a glorious issue; by cowardice and submission, the sad choice of a variety of evils . .

the british army was thoroughly unprepared to take on the american colonists.

the continental army had a realistic chance of winning against the british.

the continental army was not likely to defeat the british, but it could still compel the british to negotiate.

it was necessary to remain vigilant against cowardly people who were willing to spread rumors of defeat.

What does twain find ironic and hypocritical about human patriotism?

Correct the sentence below: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late he was right on time. a: correct as it is b: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late, he was right on time. c: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late; and he was right on time. d: the pizza delivery boy was neither early nor late: he was right on time.

In just over one hundred years, between 1701 and 1810, 252,500 enslaved africans were brought to barbados—an island that occupies only 166 square miles (making it, today, one of the smallest countries in the world). the english then set out to conquer more sugar islands, starting with jamaica, which they took from spain in 1655. in the same period that the 252,500 africans were brought to barbados, 662,400 africans were taken to jamaica. thus, sugar drove more than 900,000 people into slavery, across the atlantic, to barbados and jamaica—and these were just two of the sugar islands. the english were eagerly filling antigua, nevis, saint kitts, and montserrat with slaves and sugar mills. they took over much of dutch guiana for the same reason. seeing the fortunes being made in sugar, the french started their own scramble to turn the half of the island of hispaniola that they controlled (which is now haiti), as well as martinique, guadeloupe, and french guiana (along the south american coast near dutch guiana), into their own sugar colonies, which were filled with hundreds of thousands more african slaves. by 1753, british ships were taking average of 34,250 slaves from africa every year, and by 1768, that number had reached 53,100. –sugar changed the world, marc aronson and marina budhos how do the authors use historical evidence to support their claim? x(a) they use secondary sources to show how french and english monarchs were indifferent to enslaved people. x(b)they use secondary sources to show that enslaved people often fought for their freedom after arriving in the caribbean. the answer is: (c)they use facts from primary sources to show how countries increased the number of enslaved people to produce more sugar. x(d)they use primary source interviews to show that countries could make more money in trading sugar without using enslaved people.