Hmmm.
Yes.
Next.
Didn’t Bill Cosby point this out already?
Imagine if George Washington had gotten the commission in the British Army he so desperately craved during the French and Indian War.
Yes, but God was on our side. We may soon find out what happens when he isn’t.
The Islamic rebels used the exact same guerilla tactics to defeat the Russians and Americans in A-stan. The North Vietnamese did it too. Eventually the imperial powers exhausted and bankrupted themselves and gave up. Successful wars have to be won fast.
Yes, Many times.
Plausibly, Britain could have won the war by a strategy of strangling the colonial economy. In addition, even after independence was declared, political concessions could have been offered instead of attempting to quell the Americans through costly military force that risked a loss in the field.
The consensus among hard left wing historians seems to be trying to completely re-make the Revolutionary War into actually the first World War/global war. They want this really really badly, apparently so badly they can taste it. That is:
(WWI = actually WW2)
(WWII = actually WW3)
The left historians seek so badly to entirely erase the American Revolution that gave birth to the Revolutionary War and thus the Founding itself. Transforming the narrative to a global one further obfuscates, abstracts, and omits the Founding Fathers, so this end result at least makes sense why they desire it so badly.
Nobody denies French and other involvement. These are two separate things.
General Howe was not at the Battle of Yorktown. The British lost because they didn’t have “No Howe”.
You don’t have to “win” a revolt. All you have to do is be enough of a pain in the butt for long enough that the outfit that is being revolted against decides it isn’t worth it.
Bo, because GOD fought for us.
We’d all be speaking Canadian!
It has been losing the revolution since the early 1900s...
Particularly, every time another democrat and/or Marxist was elected to a political office...
The Faunders of the former Republic would have revolted again when the 16th and 17th were enacted...
IMHO, they would have revolted again when Lincoln started the Civil War...
Well, at the start of the War of Independence the percentage of those citizens that endorsed the idea of independence remained an apathetic 26%. The 26% consisted mostly of merchants and business owners. As it became evident that Washington had a pretty good chance (with Franklin’s alliance with the French), the deplorable peasants got on board.
Well, the War of 1812 comes to mind.
It was possible that Britain could have won had George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Benedict Arnold had never been born.
Stark and his squirrel shooters
America didn’t win the war, the English lost it. Not at all the same thing. The Colonials simply held on until the English had bigger fish to fry and were forced to let them go.
The French lost it, too, even though it wasn’t their war. Support for the American Revolution was one of the major contributors to France’s choking debts. And Louis XVI’s debt crisis was the chief cause of the French Revolution.
Plus the message the French commoners took from the Americans was that it was possible for a ragtag army to throw off even the greatest military power in the world.
These pseudo intellectual hypotheticals are so stupid.