A few thousand patriots versus half the British army.

The American Revolution was the first chapter in the decline of the British empire.

Actually it went on to become far larger, after defeating Napoleon. It was actually the British Navy who enforced the Monroe Doctrine, as well as shutting down the Atlantic slave trade,


The American War of Independence resulted in Britain losing some of its oldest and most populous colonies in North America by 1783. While retaining control of British North America (now Canada) and territories in and near the Caribbean in the British West Indies, British colonial expansion turned towards Asia, Africa, and the Pacific. After the defeat of France in the Napoleonic Wars (1803–1815), Britain emerged as the principal naval and imperial power of the 19th century and expanded its imperial holdings. It pursued trade concessions in China and Japan, and territory in Southeast Asia. The "Great Game" and "Scramble for Africa" also ensued. The period of relative peace (1815–1914) during which the British Empire became the global hegemon was later described as Pax Britannica (Latin for "British Peace"). Alongside the formal control that Britain exerted over its colonies, its dominance of much of world trade, and of its oceans, meant that it effectively controlled the economies of, and readily enforced its interests in, many regions, such as Asia and Latin America.[6][7] It also came to dominate the Middle East. Increasing degrees of autonomy were granted to its white settler colonies, some of which were formally reclassified as Dominions by the 1920s.
 
A little video of George Washingtons ability as a general and the resolve of true patriots fighting fora cause.
The Winter Patriots.



Half the British Army? Really? The British put half their army into the Americas and then half their army for the rest of the world?
 

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