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Wars and Battles
Opposing Forces
War for Independence

Opposing ForcesOn the surface, the American colonists appeared to be no match for the British soldiers, but the local forces did enjoy some advantages:

  • a familiarity with the terrain
  • the support from local populations*
  • short supply lines
  • potentially sufficient numbers of soldiers.
However, the British had what appeared to many to be overwhelming advantages, including:
  • the availability of highly trained professional soldiers
  • the world's most powerful navy
  • the financial and material resources of the massive British empire.

*Historians have speculated that American public opinion was fairly evenly divided at the beginning of the War with one-third actively committed to the patriot cause, one-third strongly bonded to Britain as loyalists, and one-third uncommitted and more concerned about their farms or shops than politics.

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