WHY DID THE AMERICANS TRIUMPH
The Americans triumphed in the war for Independence due to a number of reasons, which when combined, could only lead to one solution, that of victory for the Americans. As Hugh Brogan says, ‘There was no middle ground for the Americans: for them it was either victory or total submission.’ The reasons are far and wide reaching and include a number of failures by the British. The British failed to use the loyalist Americans who numbered up to a third of the population, they withheld some of their best troops from the conflict and suffered major communication problems. The role of George Washington as commander-in-chief was an important factor in the success of the Continental Army and the final reason for American success lies in the support it received from other nations and in particular from France.The American Revolution divided the American people in three ways. There were those who wanted a new political order and wanted to be free from the British, there were those who were loyal to Britain and those who had not decided who to side with or did not care which way the conflict went. The revolutionaries called those loyal to Britain ‘Tories, royalists or the King’s men.’ The British did not make enough use of what could
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Approximate Word count = 1693
Approximate Pages = 7 (250 words per page double spaced)
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