How Did The Revolutionary War Progressed

I believe that the American Revolutionary war was a civil war that developed aspects of revolutionary war as it progressed. A civil war is defined as a war that takes place amidst citizens of the same country. The obvious conflict was directed between the original 13 British colonies and Great Britain, who was represented by the colonial government. Though the colonies were physically an ocean apart from the Crown, the American colonists were a group comprised of subjects of King George the III. So technically the American colonists were British from a genetic, biological standpoint. Most continued to identify as citizens of Great Britain well into their shift to the Americas. Their gradual change in identity came from a long period of statutory neglect in which they were able to experiment with democracy with minimal consequence from the Crown. It was not until many years of domestic conflict that the colonists redefined themselves with an identity other than British citizens. With that in mind, the conflict that occurred between the 13 colonies and Great Britain was very much a civil war; British citizens displaced in the Americas fighting against citizens of their homeland. …show more content…
There were those that remained loyal to the crown and those that wanted to separate from British rule, thus their respective titles of Loyalists and Patriots. In the colonies Loyalists and Patriots fought repeatedly as both sought to either discourage or encourage the Crown’s rule. Right there is another example of civil war. Both groups were British citizens and both lived in the Americas. Not only were did their identity come from the same country, but their physical location was the same so it was more so a civil war than the conflict with the