Why did England Loose the revolutionary war ?

Question

Hi im a high school student in Ohio US and im doing a paper about why england lost the revolutionary war

Answer 1

The war wasn't really lost, they just made the Declaration of Independance to stop the war and Britian's control.

Answer 2

The French finically supported and equipped arms to the colonies. Ben Franklin and John Adams drum up a lot of support for the future America in France. Without the French we would never have out lasted England. We were prepared for the start of a war with militias and personal gun ownership, but didn’t have the funds for an army or the equipment to maintain a war. Also the British used battle field strategy (like the game risk) Head charges, flank attacks. We started using guerilla warfare, ambushing troops in the wood, spot attacks on convoys. The British looked at this as cheating, no one fought like this before. Like America with Vietminh and like right now in Iraq the “locals” outlast the will of the invaders. Back then the colonies was a source of income to England and after a while it just cost too much money trying to keep the colonies.

Answer 3

There are probably many reasons the British lost that war.

1) Britain had to ship soldiers, guns, ammo, supplies, etc. across a huge ocean. (Yes, there was some local recruitment, but you get the idea)

2) Americans were fighting on "home turf" and knew the land much better.

3) Native Americans had taught American minutemen the great idea of hiding behind things in battle rather than line up all dressed in red waiting to fight.

4) The Americans got help from the French navy. The US had no navy to speak of at the time and this was crucial. "In early September, French naval forces defeated a British fleet [the first time they had been defeated] at the Battle of the Chesapeake, cutting off Cornwallis's escape" (Wikipedia).

Hope this helps.

Answer 4

They were not very bright.
And yet they were bright.

The answer to this riddle is that they fought war the gentleman's way, while the rebel forces used ambush and guerrilla tactics, shooting from behind stone walls and the like, while the Brits advanced in ranks like marching ducks lol.
In their bright red coats, they were easy targets, especially towards dusk or during early morning surprise raids.

It's odd that the same country was trounced in the Vietnam Invasion, where the key to winning was guerrilla tactics and raids. They were as visible as the Brits in their camouflage while the Cong wore black and invisible.

Answer 5

Think supply chain. England had to hire soldiers and transport them across the Atlantic. They didn't personallly know the land, had few if any maps, and they really didn't care about the war that much. England never considered the colonists much of a threat, they were more concerned with France and closer enemies.

Answer 6

Ego. They just couldn't wrap their minds around the fact that we were not going to give up. That it was a fight to the death. And like the mutts that we are, that can mean a dirty fight. Or Guerrilla Warfare. Popping up out of a forest or a field and blasting away, then running off before they can figure out what happened.
That is not to say that we didn't commit to the standards of modern (of the times) battle. We stood toe to toe and fired off volleys into each other.
They were THE world Super Power of the time, and nobody had ever beaten them in a war. They just couldn't fathom that rabble like Washington could win.

Answer 7

One of the few thing people aren't aware of is about the same time that the war started. Our planet had a mini ice age due to a volcanic eruption on an island north of Australia.
This volcanic eruption caused there to be a poor summer planet wide. Crops failed and with no crops to tax, the king of Britain couldn't afford to pay his German mercenaries.

Answer 8

They were too far from their supply, the Americans used tatics identified today as terrorism, and the British wore red targets--I mean uniforms.

Answer 9

The English didn't lose the war.
A lot of Plucky English settlers rose up against a tyrannical German King and his Hessian mercenaries and managed to keep their freedom.
Hence the plucky English settlers won and got the independence they had been used to before the germans took over.

Answer 10

they underestimated the abilitys of a ragtag millita that was REALY REALY pissed about a lot of things that england had been doing for a long long time.

the assumed they could easily put down a rebel army, and failed.

the fact that they had to re-enforce from across the atlantic didn't help much either.