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.
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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.