- I need your history book..
- Well for starters England wasn’t the most powerful military in the world. England had the best and largest navy but her land forces were rather smal. Parts of the English army used in America were mercenaries from Germany.
You also should keep in mind that the war wasn’t a regular war. In regular field battles the English army was victorious over the continental army. But guerilla warfare is another story. It the same with the Germans in Yugoslawia during WW II, the US in Vietnam or the USSR in Afghanistan.
Finally the French support for the rebells (because the most powerful army in the world (which was the French army) kept the English army in Europe) helped to win the war.
- Well the thing about that was that King George did not send many troops to Fight for Britian overseas but enlisted the people who were still loyal to him in America. So since many colonists joined the Continentals the British forces in America were being beaten as the capital of Britian. Keep also in mind that the french helped the deafet of the British Forces also in the revolution.
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