Majority of the armies the Continental army faced were very well trained well equipped veterans of the French and Indian war so they were very good British troops not fourth rate armies as you are saying.
They loyalists were trained to the standard of the other British troops which was the best at that time and they were much better equipped. The bulk of the fighting force was still British troop though not loyalists
You had 56 thousand troops in North America you were desperate to keep the colonies. Most were fighting the rebels. America attempted to invade Canada once with it first being successful with the capturing of fort Jean. How ever the Continentals were under equipped and the harsh winter killed almost half of them off. The attempt to capture Quebec was failed because of the heavy toll the winter attrition took on the Continentals. When the Continentals fought the British they were usually out numbered 3-1 with no artillery and horrible equipment. Most Brits like to claim that they didn’t care about the colonies because they cant face the cold hard facts that the “best trained troops” were beaten by farmers.
There were plenty of forests in the colonies and far more ports that Britain needed along with many farms. Britain remained the number 1 buyer of cotton from southern farms up until the civil war.
Not really you already had a huge number of troops in the colonies so you cant use that excuse.
The French gave us terrible guns we’ve already gone over this. The army was almost always under supplied and attrition was the main killer so Spain and France didn’t help us much in that area. As for training and advising most of the Continentals were ex British officers so they did not need much help with advice from the French or Spanish. Marquis de Lafayette was a big help although he was like Washingtons son and pretty much considered himself American later in the war. The biggest help with training came from a Prussian officer who trained the troops at valley forge.
They may have been traitors and separatists but they were not by definition terrorists.
No hate to burst your bubble but it was a draw both countries signed a treaty to agree to stop the fighting but that didn’t stop Andrew Jackson and his much smaller force from beating the shit out of the much larger british force a few months later.
You occupied Washington for less than a day before a hurricane blew in and sent you running. We burned down the Canadian parliament building so that made things equal.
The fact that the Continentals won any battles against the British is amazing. The continentals were under feed under equipped and had next to no training. The British armies as i said earlier usually out numbered the continentals by a significant number. If you Britain really didn’t care about the colonies as you are claiming they would not have sent nearly 40,000 troops to crush the rebellion and re take the land. The revolution was a bitter loss for Britain you just need to admit that its the past it doesn’t affect your “honor” hell we weren’t even alive then. I just hope to god they aren’t teaching in British schools that Britain didn’t lose and Britain didn’t even try to put down the revolution because it couldn’t get farther form the truth. 1812 was a stale mate plain and simple neither country reached their objectives and both suffered loses. The Battle that occurred in New Orleans is considered a separate engagement which was a crushing defeat for Britain.
Fair point how ever the majority of the lands you conquered like India, Africa, the colonies, many islands in the Pacific were thousands of years behind you. You cant really expect naked pigmies with spears and blowguns to really do much against rifles and artillery can you? Even a few vickers machine guns were used on the Zulus who had nothing but spears maybe a black powder rifle if they were lucky.
Which America usually dominates at
Would love to see this in person i wish i had a time machine to go back and see cornwallis cowering and the American troops streaming over the fortification and defeating the British once and for all.