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No wonder they lost the Revolutionary War! In Sunday School in the mid-1990's, our teacher explained to us that England during the Revolution was a morally reprehensible place. We caught G. britain at the right time to break from them. It was before the Wesleyan revival had truly taken hold, and the leadership in both the Army and Navy was generally weak and incompetent (how else would explain the Colonial success against the Royal Navy during the war?).
Nobility was engaged in drunkenness, wife-swapping, prostitution was rife. The British mocked the colonists as a bunch of religious bible-thumpers because we were morally strict for the times.

We had a tougher time with the british in the War of 1812, because the nation had more fully embraced Christianity, and it's people weren't as debauched. We were lucky that GB didn't take us back over.