How Did The British Win The American War

In the previous 100 years, the British had enjoyed victory after victory in all the wars they had been engaged in. Their superiority was confirmed after defeating great nations like France and Spain which made its military the best in the world. The British had the urge to spread their dominance and so they extended their rule to the American ground. The Americans were on the losing end from the first time the war was declared, but an alliance with France strengthened its position and having the advantage of the war being fought in their backyard, they were able to defeat the British in a costly war for both nations.
In the early years British was regarded as the superpower with a capable military and naval forces. The British army was the largest in the world with well equipped and trained soldiers who were well disciplined, well fed and well paid hence they fought their wars with passion. Another advantage on the British was the availability of funds that would be used in paying for the war. It was much easy to collect funds from an empire
The British army had invaded the American cities and set their camps in all the cities they had conquered. This had paralyzed the Americans at first who felt the humiliation of being defeated at their home ground with all the advantages of familiar terrain and features of the area. However, this did not provide enough advantage to the Americans who had already felt that they had been defeated. During the course of the war, the Americans then started employing these advantages as most of their attacks were militia planned and did not follow the order that was in the British army. The use of militia greatly helped to boost the American soldier’s spirit as they won in some of the major cities that the British had taken hold of. This was a good sign of the results that were involved with using the home ground advantage (Aronson,