Comments on: The War of the American Revolution https://www.isegoria.net/2016/03/the-war-of-the-american-revolution/ From the ancient Greek for equality in freedom of speech; an eclectic mix of thoughts, large and small Wed, 27 May 2026 16:29:23 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.6.1 By: Cassander https://www.isegoria.net/2016/03/the-war-of-the-american-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-2463383 Cassander Sat, 26 Mar 2016 19:22:21 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39938#comment-2463383 In every major 18th-Century conflict between France and the Brits, the French navy got outspent by the Royal Navy and got beaten. The one war they didn’t get beaten badly on the seas was the American war, which was also the only war in which they were able to outspend the Royal Navy. They were able to do that because they didn’t need to deploy a large army on the continent, and the brits did need to spend money deploying one in America. The land campaign in the US was not a sideshow; it was a very large drain on British resources that made the success of the other campaigns possible.

]]> By: Grurray https://www.isegoria.net/2016/03/the-war-of-the-american-revolution/comment-page-1/#comment-2463350 Grurray Sat, 26 Mar 2016 14:27:27 +0000 http://www.isegoria.net/?p=39938#comment-2463350 Washington was successful in New Jersey because local Jerseyites waged a guerrilla war. The British believed the moderate middle colonies would be easier to pacify than radical New England, especially New Jersey which was full of apparently amiable Dutch settlers.

They didn’t take into account their Protestant Reformed faith. The Dutchmen had a schism in the 1740s Great Awakening. The ones that stayed loyal to the church governing body in Amsterdam also supported the British. The more evangelical members that wanted ecclesiastical freedom fought for independence.

The patriot militias eventually fought better than the colonial army. By 1879, the British had lost control of New Jersey, and it basically turned into a civil war between each side of the schism.

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