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History thread: How did we win the Revolutionary War?
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:29 pm
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:29 pm
Was it just a matter of the British not being able to devote their full resources to fight us?
I know in school we were always taught about the advantage we had since we were fighting where we lived but often things like that are way oversimplified and Surely we wouldntve won without the French?
Don't be worried about hijacking this thread as we can use it for a general history discussion if that ends up happening, I've just always liked history threads on here and there are some very knowledgable posters, the other day a few mentioned they wished we had more threads about this war
I know in school we were always taught about the advantage we had since we were fighting where we lived but often things like that are way oversimplified and Surely we wouldntve won without the French?
Don't be worried about hijacking this thread as we can use it for a general history discussion if that ends up happening, I've just always liked history threads on here and there are some very knowledgable posters, the other day a few mentioned they wished we had more threads about this war
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Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:32 pm to Wishnitwas1998
ib4 Darth searches Wikipedia
This post was edited on 3/14/15 at 5:33 pm
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:36 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Bc Paul Revere and Crispus Atticks
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:38 pm to Wishnitwas1998
We fought dirty. It wasn't "gentleman like" to ambush the other sides' soldiers in the woods and have soldiers "sniping" commanders. The British didn't fight like that and we did. It is pretty much the most successful job of guerrilla warfare in history.
That and the French lending us a lot of help.
That and the French lending us a lot of help.
This post was edited on 3/14/15 at 5:42 pm
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:38 pm to Wishnitwas1998
No idea either, can't be easy to wage a war across the Atlantic back then though. Logistics of it are pretty incredible
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:38 pm to biglego
quote:
B/c Paul Revere and The Raiders
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:41 pm to Wishnitwas1998
we didn't "win" it, we just made it more costly for them to keep fighting than to give us independence
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:42 pm to Henry Jones Jr
quote:
gorilla warfare
That's the best kind
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:42 pm to biglego
I know. As soon as I read over it a minute ago, I corrected it. I'm off my game grammatically today 
This post was edited on 3/14/15 at 5:44 pm
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:47 pm to Wishnitwas1998
Same reason Afghanistan cannot be beat by Russia in 1980 or beat by USA today.
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:48 pm to Henry Jones Jr
quote:
It is pretty much the most successful job of guerrilla warfare in history.
/thread
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:49 pm to Henry Jones Jr
quote:
We fought dirty. It wasn't "gentleman like" to ambush the other sides' soldiers in the woods and have soldiers "sniping" commanders. The British didn't fight like that and we did. It is pretty much the most successful job of guerrilla warfare in history.
That's pretty much the mythological version of the American Revolution.
The American Contintental Army fought pitched battles in ranks and files against British forces.
There were some American forces that operated on horseback that used hit and run tactics while basing themselves in swamps and deep forests. These were primarily in the Southern colonies.
The Native American tribes at the time were allied with Great Britain. They were the real experts in "guerilla war".
But the American Continental Army was trained to stand in ranks and deliver volleys of musket fire in pitched battles. They were not a "guerilla" army.
The US won the war after the French fleet beat the British fleet near Yorktown. This ensured that the British Army besieged at Yorktown could receive no supplies from a seaport, and neither could they evacuate by sea. So, they had to surrender.
Of course, the British did not quit immediately after Yorktown, but, it was only a matter of time. The British at Yorktown surrendered in 1781, and the British military campaign against the USA ended in 1783.
This post was edited on 3/14/15 at 5:54 pm
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:52 pm to Champagne
quote:
The Indian tribes at the time were allied with Great Britain.
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:54 pm to Gladius Veritas
Sounds a lot like Vietnam and Iraq
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:55 pm to Kafka
quote:
The Indian tribes
Yes they were, but, they were not from India, so, why call them "Indians" ?
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:58 pm to Wishnitwas1998
a British officer said "because they just won't go away" Washington knew that the most important thing was to keep an army in the field. That meant sometimes retreating to fight another day. As long as he could keep an army fighting, the British resolve would wear down. Oh, and the French fleet!
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:58 pm to Champagne
Why call America after a guy who was never here?
If you don't want to call them Indians, call them aboriginals
If you don't want to call them Indians, call them aboriginals
Posted on 3/14/15 at 5:59 pm to Champagne
The Native Americans migrated over the land bridge between Asia and North America. Who's to say some of them didn't originate from the area now known as India? 
Posted on 3/14/15 at 6:03 pm to PsychTiger
quote:Native Asians you fricking racist
The Native Americans migrated over the land bridge between Asia and North America
Posted on 3/14/15 at 6:08 pm to Wishnitwas1998
MALARIAL MOSQUITOES.
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