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Why Did The British Win The Revolutionary War
If the British had won the Revolutionary War, I would not be sitting here writing this paper and you would not be reading this right now. Americans would not be Americans, but British. America would not even be around now and there would be no 50 states. Most of our ancestors would not have came if the British beat the Americans. Our ancestors came for independence, land, and economic gain, they came for a better life then they had where they were. Based on Britain back then, it was not like America at all. In Britain, people were fighting for land and they were sick of the king, whereas in America land was free for the people that wanted it and there was no king telling them what to do. If the British had won the Revolutionary War, they

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