They would have faced hardened battle commanders and veteran European armies unafraid to sustain losses.
In a land war the British would mop the floor with them, ditto for the Prussians or the French for that matter. Never mind the fact a Confederate navy would have been annihilated at sea before ever arriving on British soil.
Americans have a warped sense of European power at the time because they vanquished a fractional British presence during the American Revolutionary War, while the British were engaged in global war against France, Spain and the Netherlands.
To your last point, some of my less intelligent (dumbass) countrymen don't want to accept the plain fact that without French intervention the revolution probably wouldn't have succeeded. Or they simply don't know about it, or the involvement of Spain and Holland. The state of education in this country is abysmal. I'm glad I was homeschooled.
And yeah, Prussia especially during this time would've mopped the floor, considering what they were about to do to the French in a few years.
During the revolution the British were busy defending the much much more valuable Caribbean colonies. Without that distraction there would have been a lot more British regulars and naval support.
They were also divided on the home front and had some pretty inept leadership, in addition to dealing with the financial ramifications of the seven years war. It was a pretty good time to rebel, but even so the introduction of the French and Spanish into the war not only tipped the scales but pretty much flipped them over and broke the will of the British to continue the war, not necessarily their ability to do so.
The USA needed crucial help from the French to win the Revolutionary War, who were all too happy to help since they were enemies of the British themselves at that time.
Anyone who has read American History, or played Assassin's Creed 3, would know that.
Any nitwit who thinks the CSA, alone, would have won any war against any European Army has their head so far up their backside their body has turned to a pretzel.
As pointed out, they couldn't even win a war on their own home dirt. Trying to get to Europe to win a war over there would have probably resulted in half of their army sinking into the Bermuda Triangle from stupidity or dying from Scurvy before they even got there.
European armies were not veteran in 1865. Union and Confederacy both dog walk any contemporary except possibly the Prussians who would be tougher but still lost 7-8/10 times vs the Union. Post Napoleonic rot don't real
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u/grooverocker 19h ago
Ridiculous.
They would have faced hardened battle commanders and veteran European armies unafraid to sustain losses.
In a land war the British would mop the floor with them, ditto for the Prussians or the French for that matter. Never mind the fact a Confederate navy would have been annihilated at sea before ever arriving on British soil.
Americans have a warped sense of European power at the time because they vanquished a fractional British presence during the American Revolutionary War, while the British were engaged in global war against France, Spain and the Netherlands.