It's kind of crazy how neglected the western frontier of the American Revolution is. In many ways, at least demographically, it has got to be more important than the East Coast. Hell, look at how Kentucky's population fucking exploded in the middle of this fighting - there were I believe around 50,000 whites there by the end of the war. Not to mention how much the Native Americans got pwned and how unsuccessful the British strategy at allying with them was.
>>18045085I guess the British could've won - depending on what your definition of victory is - but I literally cannot see how they would ever control most of the country. The USA is a completely unique case with how many colonists settled there - which above all probably has to do with how Britain is insular (and so less distracted by continental affairs that'd sap manpower) plus how they kept sending undesirables there.
>>18045088The only remotely comparable example is Russia with Siberia but that worked because - among other things - of how it's always been contiguous with Moscow and how it was much more obviously oppressive towards the colonists there.
>>18045095Wars during the 18th century were also just ruinously expensive and trying to fight across a huge ocean just added to the expense. It's not surprising Britain was unwilling to go all-in fighting its colonies when the Seven Years War just a little over a decade ago nearly bankrupted them.
Burgers don’t really care much about the revolution so you can’t expect them to know about battles that often only had a few hundred combatants on each side, but yeah, the frontier campaigns were epic. Even more neglected is Spain’s role in parts of the future United States, picking off British outposts along the Mississippi and Gulf of Mexico. Yorktown wasn’t the only reason the British decided to let the Americans go as they feared Spain and France would capture sugar islands that generated more income than any of the 13 colonies.
