RE: Big Day in History
October 20, 2014 at 6:15 pm
(This post was last modified: October 20, 2014 at 6:33 pm by Anomalocaris.)
(October 20, 2014 at 4:05 am)BrianSoddingBoru4 Wrote: Deciding when a war ends is always a bit tricky. Hostilities ceased after Yorktown in 1781, so the actual 'war' bit of the war stopped.
Not really. The world didn't revolve around the United States back then. Once France entered the war the war was no longer about the Independence of the British colonies, it was about whether Britain could be crushed by France and Spain, and what mattered was the control of the Caribbean sugar islands. Things were looking good for France in 1781 to take the Caribbean from Britain. If things went on this way the world would be much different much sooner than the mere fact that United States was assured survival.
The decisive battle that determined the outcome of this war didn't happen till May 1782, when the British got luck and defeated probably the best French fleet to ever face Britain in battle.
