A phrase frequently tossed around in the United States is “Hindsight is twenty-twenty”. We can’t be sure of how this phrase materialized, especially with the war of British and Americans being an explicit contradiction. There are a plethora of factors that justify the extensive clashing dialogues concerning the motivations of British defeat. Great British minds alike presented equally convincing arguments that condemned and combated that of their peers.
A ubiquitous idea discussed in the historical narrative is the notion that the British Army was infallible. Both perspectives perpetuated reasoning referencing military prowess, but they each suggested different employments of it. Heavily centered on the troop movements of 1776, authorities …show more content…
Each individual valued maintaining his own self-esteem over determining the reasons the war was lost. War proponents maintained disbelief that the indomitable British force could be so mismanaged, and the antagonists believed that military force was gratuitous and affairs should have been dealt with politically. Though undeniably being the greatest military strength in the world, there is an extremity to even which Britain’s military was rendered ineffectual. The British’s urge to retain honor obstructed their objective viewpoint, and resulted in the beginning of an unwinnable war.
King George explicitly disregarded the fact that ordering mass amounts of troops across an ocean presented numerous difficulties for the British army. Transporting battalions of soldiers over seas makes for no easy feat, regardless of the military’s ability or technology. After the ordeal of transport, an army is left on foreign soil with dwindling resources. In the process of procuring an almost theatrical armada, King George forewent precautions which culminated in losses of over 1,000 men and 1,000 cattle. The action of launching the armada was the King’s first blunder, and perhaps being …show more content…
After a myriad of fatal interactions with patriots, it would have been easy to discern that sending a massive amount of troops was not the resolution to reintegrating the colonies into the British Empire. From a quick glance, if there were battles that killed hundreds of soldiers, the natural response would be to crush the rebellion with as much force as possible. However, with a closer observation it is indisputable that all the colonies demanded were negotiations. When soldiers antagonized them, they responded with events of courage such as Breed's and Bunker hill, but did not prompt the soldiers themselves. Attacking the country would not have improved the situation at all, and it is difficult to believe that was the decision formulated by the British. One of the main reasons that one can believe the British regarded attack, or “liberation”, as the only option is that such a great empire would never adhere to demands produced by colonists they considered foreign. The pride of the English influenced the decisions made by King George greatly, especially when an army and budget of such grandeur were devoted to the war effort. King George’s virtue would not suffer ramifications in losing, so all eyes would naturally go to his second in command. Knowing what would happen if the colonies were lost, the second in command, Lord Germain, wanted to extinguish thoughts of
A ubiquitous idea discussed in the historical narrative is the notion that the British Army was infallible. Both perspectives perpetuated reasoning referencing military prowess, but they each suggested different employments of it. Heavily centered on the troop movements of 1776, authorities …show more content…
Each individual valued maintaining his own self-esteem over determining the reasons the war was lost. War proponents maintained disbelief that the indomitable British force could be so mismanaged, and the antagonists believed that military force was gratuitous and affairs should have been dealt with politically. Though undeniably being the greatest military strength in the world, there is an extremity to even which Britain’s military was rendered ineffectual. The British’s urge to retain honor obstructed their objective viewpoint, and resulted in the beginning of an unwinnable war.
King George explicitly disregarded the fact that ordering mass amounts of troops across an ocean presented numerous difficulties for the British army. Transporting battalions of soldiers over seas makes for no easy feat, regardless of the military’s ability or technology. After the ordeal of transport, an army is left on foreign soil with dwindling resources. In the process of procuring an almost theatrical armada, King George forewent precautions which culminated in losses of over 1,000 men and 1,000 cattle. The action of launching the armada was the King’s first blunder, and perhaps being …show more content…
After a myriad of fatal interactions with patriots, it would have been easy to discern that sending a massive amount of troops was not the resolution to reintegrating the colonies into the British Empire. From a quick glance, if there were battles that killed hundreds of soldiers, the natural response would be to crush the rebellion with as much force as possible. However, with a closer observation it is indisputable that all the colonies demanded were negotiations. When soldiers antagonized them, they responded with events of courage such as Breed's and Bunker hill, but did not prompt the soldiers themselves. Attacking the country would not have improved the situation at all, and it is difficult to believe that was the decision formulated by the British. One of the main reasons that one can believe the British regarded attack, or “liberation”, as the only option is that such a great empire would never adhere to demands produced by colonists they considered foreign. The pride of the English influenced the decisions made by King George greatly, especially when an army and budget of such grandeur were devoted to the war effort. King George’s virtue would not suffer ramifications in losing, so all eyes would naturally go to his second in command. Knowing what would happen if the colonies were lost, the second in command, Lord Germain, wanted to extinguish thoughts of