Why Britain Won The Revolutionary War

Why the British Should Have Won the War

How did the British lose the Revolutionary War? They had more, and better, everything. Such as better soldiers and better training. This would surely give them and advantage. Also the greater amount of supplies should help. But in the end they still lost, it could have been for a few, good, reasons. These reasons are minuscule compared to the power of the British military. The British should have won the Revolutionary War because they had a far superior army and they failed because of overconfidence.

The British should not have even had the war to begin with. There are a few commonsensical reasons why the war could, and even should, have been avoid. The entire Revolutionary War could have been avoided if the British had just given the colonists a seat in parliament. In the beginning, the colonists were protesting against being taxed without having any representation in parliament. The colonists also did not like the fact that they where being forced to house British troops in their homes. If parliament had stopped housing British troops in colonist's houses, many conflicts
It could be argued that because the colonists did have the help of France, and that Britain was in a poor economic state. For one, Britain forced its soldiers to fight or sign up, and then trained them to follow every command. This meant that Britain had complete control over their soldiers. This also meant that they had more soldiers to fight with. More soldiers that are more skilled is, based on common sense, almost a guaranteed win. The final reason why it was improbable for the British to lose was that they had more supplies than the colonists. More supplies would mean a higher moral, and not as famished soldiers. These are a few of the reasons why Britain should have won, but there are some good reasons why they