re: History thread: How did we win the Revolutionary War?

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Yorktown was the result of eroded public support in parliament, not the cause.

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We'll have to agree to disagree.

Cornwallis surrendered at Yorktown because the French fleet inflicted a defeat upon the British naval forces off of the coast of Yorktown and chased them away. After that French naval victory, Cornwallis was isolated, unable to be re-supplied by land or by sea and unable to be evacuated by sea by British naval forces.

After the French naval victory at Yorktown, a British relief force destined to aid Cornwallis at Yorktown actually did set sail from New York, but, failed to arrive before Cornwallis was compelled to surrender by force of arms.

It was not "soft power" policy factors that caused Britain to quit, it was military defeat.

Your interpretation is probably what they teach in Great Britain, but, IMHO, it's inaccurate Anglophilia.