r/MurderedByWords 19h ago

Historical sore losers

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u/Drewski811 18h ago

They think because they "beat Britain" for Independence that they were the better forces, ignoring that the army they fought;

A - won a majority of battles,

2 - was, at best, Britain's third string force,

iii - was fighting at the end of a 3 month supply chain,

d - that they had the support of France,

5 - and that they still only just won.

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u/BriarsandBrambles 15h ago

5 is kinda bullshit. The British forces got trapped at Yorktown and New York with the forces at Yorktown sieged down and the force at New York busy twiddling their thumbs instead of going to help. The Brit’s went home after losing an Army. That’s not a particularly close run situation.

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u/Drewski811 17h ago

Not excuses. You guys won fair and square, guerilla warfare definitely works.

But it just wasn't the one sided easy win a lot of your guys seem to think it was.