I think Edmund Burke was relieved that the US experience did not mirror the French one, which Thomas Paine praised. The difference is American championed to idea of being BORN equal, not EQUAL outcomes, as the French wanted. My understanding is many if not most Whigs opposed the war in the Americas, but somehow George III had packed the Parliament with Tories and worse – yes men. How and why that happened I am still not clear on, since the monarchy had gone into political decline since the Glorious Revolution. From what I read the militias of the northern colonies were completely ineffective and bungled their foray into Canada. Washington figured out that all he had to do was to keep an army in the field. Very few battles were actually won by the Patriots, but they continuously wore down British resolve. The most brutal part of the war was when the Patriots figured out the officers road in the front of the line and were mounted. Using frontiersmen sharpshooters they ruthlessly took out the officers. Towards the end it seemed the Patriot tactics were better suited for defending ones homeland.
War of attrition, scorched earth, ungentlemanly practices on the field...
They could not count on Tories to keep them logistically supplied and as things wore on it was too much trouble and costly..
You do what you gotta do or lie down and take it...
War of attrition, scorched earth, ungentlemanly practices on the field...
They could not count on Tories to keep them logistically supplied and as things wore on it was too much trouble and costly..
You do what you gotta do or lie down and take it...