Scandinavia+-+Why+the+colonies+won+-+Lindsay

 At hough the colonies were at a distinct disadvantage at the beginning of the revolution, they managed to defeat the British by using guerrilla warfare and propaganda. The British also pushed away the colonists by only trying to suffocate the colonists and not actually listening to them.

The British did not  listen to the colonists; they did not even  let them have representation in England  or a say in politics . The colonists had fought the war for the Ohio valley, but they had no part in the decision to give it back to the French and the First Nations. The colonists were fighting to be recognized as British citizens, with a voice in government and a say in decisions made about their new world. The British, however, just fought back instead of listening. They repressed them, and even dissolved their general assembly. This fueled the colonists' anger.



 Many people in the colonies were educated and literate. The colonists used this to their advantage, thus they used propaganda to get a reaction out of the people to  encourage and unite each other. They inspired a sense of pride in their new country, and the lands that they fought for. The example above ('We need you, brother') gives a sense of family, protecting what is yours. The "Join or Die" feeling was infectious. The British burned down their supporters homes in an effort to smoke out the rebels. This only inspired sympathy for the rebels, and hatred for the British. The rebels didn't win massive victories, but they knew how to use the battles as propaganda, such as the crossing of the Delaware, which was a tiny battle, but the colonists showed it as a great victory, or the Boston "massacre", where in fact only 5  rebels were killed. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> <span style="color: #7d07b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The colonists <span style="color: #ab1407; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, who had settled in North America for quite a long while, were <span style="color: #7d07b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> adapted to the new landscape of America <span style="color: #ab1407; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">during the battles <span style="color: #7d07b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> First Nations and the French. They stopped fighting with chivalry and quickly learned the art of guerrilla warfare <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">, thus moving away from the feudal system implacable in Britain <span style="color: #7d07b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">. When the British came over, they fought with chivalry, while the colonists had no problem with shooting the general and then running away. It also took the British almost 3 months to get reinforcements from England. <span style="font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">And the colonists had no problem blocking off the routes to Britain.

<span style="color: #7d07b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">The British could <span style="color: #ab1407; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">not <span style="color: #7d07b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> adapt to the new styles of war and propaganda, and they did <span style="color: #ab1407; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;">not <span style="color: #7d07b6; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive;"> listen to the colonists. Every British military win was turned into a victory for the colonists, as they used the British wins and the British control to gain sympathy from the undecided colonists, while the British had hardly any propaganda. It was harder for the British to fight with chivalry against the guerrilla tactics. The British weren't doing anything to gain support from the people, while the rebels did everything they could to rally the masses.