What do you think?

What do you think?

France helped us a lot, and because we were technically English colonists, they didn't go full bore suppression

>The Largest
Wrong! Spain and France both had larger armies.

>Most Highly Trained
Wrong! Most redcoats were conscripted convicts given basic instructions

>Navy
It was outnumbered by the French, Dutch and Spanish

>Aided by tens of thousnads of top grade german mercenaries

Doesn't mean shit when a country that has 5x your population (France) is at war with yiu.


>Libertarian

Meme word capitalists stole from the left

>Farmers and Fishermen

They were given just as much training as British soldiers were

>With outdated hunting equipment

75% of their equipment was made in france.
Here's a better comparision op:

4th most powerful country in europe with a small standing army

VS

The 2 most powerful countries in Europe and a larger army an ocean away.

You think the UK had the largest army and navy on earth in 1776?
The navy was the best by then but certainly not the largest.
The army was probably not in the top 10.

The revolutionary war was stacked against the UK.
Kentucky long rifles were state of the art.

No
>British empire
>richest due to colonies tax
>best equipped navy but not largest as France and Spain would still conscript merchants
>best horses but not best infantry tactics
>men signed up rather than conscripted like on the continent
>10k German Marc's
Means shit when they surrender after 2 hours, and then undermine popular support among the south by freeing slaves
>outdated equipment
Wow the gun barrel was 9" not 10"
The war was mainly won due to France and Spain stopping the British navy workijg to its full effect hence why New York fell, and the English wanting peace rather than drawing out the war and going bankrupt like France

Britain was so weak and inferior that France bankrupted itself trying to slightly spite them, Spain lost the largest battle of the war trying to take a fort from an outnumbered British garrison, and the Dutch tried to get in on the action while the USA/France/Spain were fighting them and just got drubbed for it.

k German Marc's
>>Means shit when they surrender after 2 hours,

The Germans were the most well-disciplined troops on the British side. Also there were 30,000 of them. Per A. J. Berry, "A Time of Terror", p. 252.

Numerically, it was at every disadvantage. it's just the British were excellent tacticians, as you've just described.

>Aided by tens of thousnads of top grade german mercenaries

Weren't Hessians technically part of the UK through some personal union? or am I confusing it with Hanover

Hannover was. Hessians were hired.

Hannover was the home of the Georgians, Hesse was the land of German mercenaries because they had nothing else to do, same with Switzerland and the Low Countries ore Dutch revolt

The northern German state of Hanover (most of modern-day Lower Saxony) was in personal union with the UK because King George III was the Elector of Hanover. Because the English royal family was of German ancestry (George III was the first to speak English as his first language). However, most of the Hanoverian men fought in Europe and India rather than the Americas.

George III was also the leader of one of the districts of Brunswick-Lüneburg because his sister was wife to the heir of both that state and Brunswick-Wolfenbüttel. The name "Hessian" came to refer to all German troops because the majority of the German soldiers serving in the Americas actually did come from Hesse-Kassel (most of modern-day Hesse). These men were actually mercenaries; or, considering they fought with their regular Hessian flags and uniforms, you could look at it as basically Britain paying the state of Hesse to join the war on their side.

>excellent tacticians
>Saratoga, Yorktown, and Boston on their record

Pick ONE.

What did British North Germany look like?

>implying George II did not say I hav not wone drop of bluud in my body that is not fully aenglish

>Because the English royal family was of German ancestry (George III was the first to speak English as his first language
George I had no time for England, but Anne before him was fully English, you should have said early Hanoverians (if you see Victoria as a coburg or Hanoverian is up to you)
Pretty good
Unfortunately they kept Salic law so Victoria didn't inherit so Prussia conquered it in their wars of """"""German"""""" """"""unification""""

>Outdated hunting equipment.
The American long rifle was one of the finest rifled muskets of the time.

England had the Meh-est ground forces in Europe. Just look at their dismal record in the Seven Years War. Fucked up in guerilla actions from North America to Spanish Philippines.

All the best European armies were in the continent. Most notably the French and the Prussians.

>meh-est ground forces in Europe
>win the largest battle of this war against Spanish forces while outnumbered

what did he meme by this?

>Beating up past-it's-prime Spain.
>Was barely involved in the continental european theater where the real ground armies were duking it out,

>largest army
>highest trained

>Hessians were hired
You mean sold off my the prince

>The war was mainly won due to France and Spain stopping the British navy workijg to its full
And also because the 13 Colonies were geographically huge and physically impossible for an army of 40000 to occupy

It's these types of scenarios where people should have changed their succession laws so that the more competent/powerful/politically connected person inherits.

>some drunken libertarian farmers and fisherman with outdated hunting equipment

lol..drunken is right but many American officers had experience fighting in the French and Indian War (Morgan, Stark and Washington come to mind) and many regional militias were pretty well armed and organized.

the Colonials biggest issue was a virtual lack of logistics and almost a total lack of war production. We didn't even have the means to produce large amounts of gun-powder until Eleuthere Du Pont immigrated to the US 20 years after the war.

Without the French and Spanish the American Independence would have been impossible.

i think youre redneck grandpa got a hoot out of this when he forwarded it in a chain email to you

Thats how it worked in the Islamic world. It didnt end well

The brits did more training than anyone even prussia, and they had plenty of volunteer enlistees in addition to the conscripts. Feel free to look it up. Their army was indisputed #1 in terms of quality, if not size. Replying more for the sake of the thread than to convince this poster who clearly has no interest in facts and just hates the brits.

>He don't know France invested so much money in the American war of independance they got bankrupt despide being the most wealthy county of the time
>He don't know the UK lost their naval supremacy in this war
>He don't know, like the 7 year war it was a world war
>He don't know the Amercian theater was just one of the front of the war

dude you look like an idiot. you're a contrarian and nothing else.

Can somebody give me a quick rundown on Hessians? Why did they rent their army to other countries? And why nobody attacked them while their army was away?

>pointing out american revisionism is contrarian

it is an edit of the vietnam war version, unless gramps uses Veeky Forums that is unlikely