Scoped number · Episodes 3
British and German force assembled for New York
more than 30,000 troops
- Scope
- The combined invasion force assembled for the 1776 New York campaign; totals vary by date, category, and whether sailors and noncombatant labor are included.
- Uncertainty
- Use as an order-of-magnitude comparison, not one timeless strength return. Effective strength changed with arrivals, sickness, detachments, and losses.
- Interpretation
- The figure makes visible the imperial and logistical scale Washington faced without making American defeat automatic.
Fischer directly supports the “more than 30,000” order of magnitude; the site does not attribute that exact threshold to Lengel without a checked locator. Numbers here answer “how large, when, and according to which accounting category?” A fleet, an army return, and everyone sustained by the expedition are different denominators.