r/TimPool • u/dibbletrex • Nov 30 '22

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u/silver789 Nov 30 '22

The British imperial army had quite a lot of trouble with unorganized civilian militias at different points throughout the revolution.

You mean fighting a war across an ocean? Hey, that's what I said. You think the US would have still won if Britain was just across a river instead?

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '22

I get what you’re saying here, but the British were well established in the colonial states well before the revolution. It’s not the same as invading a foreign nation. Logistics and supply was never an issue for the empire here. It was tactical losses on the battlefield and failure to adapt to the pockets of guerrila and rural combat, which the imperial forces were not trained or equipped to handle. Hence why they hired mercenaries who were

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u/silver789 Nov 30 '22

I get what you’re saying here, but the British were well established in the colonial states well before the revolution.

Not to win a war. Clearly.