Why the English lost the Revolutionary war

[mikegriffith1]

There is no quick, simple answer to that question. There are several reasons the British lost the War of Independence:

* They never committed the bulk of their forces to the war.

* They greatly overestimated the level of Loyalist/Tory support among the population (it was not nearly as strong or widespread as they believed--or said they believed).

* Their appeals to American slaves to rise up and join them in exchange for their freedom largely fell on deaf ears.

 

[mikegriffith1]

The British did not really "lose" the war. Rather, the liberal opposition in Parliament took advantage of the defeat at Yorktown to force an end to the war. The British were actually still in a strong position in America after Yorktown, as George Washington's correspondence confirms, especially after they replaced the incompetent General Clinton with General Carleton and the bungling doofus Admiral Graves with Admiral Hood.

 

[TheParser]

It was simply too much land to occupy with so little troops . Every time the English seized land it was irrelevant because the Americans just moved to a new spot . The English were completely bankrupt and did not view the area as that important . They had Canada and much of the Caribbean.
Again ..too much territory to cover and the Americans could just keep moving to unlimited locations

Some people also give a lot of credit to the French for coming to the help of the American rebels at Yorktown.