So the only reason the colonies won was because Parliament refused to send the necessary reinforcements/supplies and Howe being a cowardly general?
>>18439256No
>>18439257The continental army was poorly trained, poorly armed, poorly paid, and rarely won any decisive victories. Washington spent more time retreating than fighting and most of the soldiers just wanted to go home after realizing the camps were poorly supplied and the states lied about paying them. The soldiers spent more time in threadbare rags than uniform and many had no shoes. As the war dragged on people refused to sign up for the army and states were just sending criminals, vagabonds, and slaves to fight.
>>18439256wasn't it because of French?
>>18439284French direct help and the Spanish smuggling arms into the colonies did help. Also the French/Spanish harassing the English abroad. Also didn't help that the English antagonized protestant/orthodox europe who refused to help them.
>>18439256The colonists won because King George was an inbred dysgenic retard
You can't just infinitely send resources to fight a war to hold some colonies that clearly want nothing to do with you anymore when you're also maintaining a global empire, and for those colonies, fighting the empire to the point it is unable or unwilling to commit the resources necessary to keep fighting is the win state. Mind, it didn't actually sink in for the English that they'd actually lost until after the war of 1812 and they had to be reminded that Americans were not citizens of the crown and could no longer be conscripted.
>>18439291Once the French, Spanish and Dutch started dogpiling on the Brits they decided to cut their losses rather than face economic ruin and lose valuable colonies. A single Caribbean sugar island could generate more revenue than all of the 13 colonies. They were still winning victories against the colonists but the Americans would just retreat, stall for time and wait for French troops and supplies.
