Originally Posted by Mutt

what kind of stupid pill did you take this morning?

A few thousand men? You need to do some reading, the British Army only had 48,000 men and the might of the great British Navy did fight and were defeated by American revolutionaries who had nothing at the beginning of the war to fight, no national army or navy, no experience in war.

"About 171,000 sailors served in the Royal Navy during the war; about a quarter had been pressed into service. About 1,240 were killed in battle, while 18,500 died from disease. The greatest killer was scurvy, a disease which had been shown to be preventable by issuing lemon or lime juice to sailors but was not taken seriously. Scurvy would be eradicated in the Royal Navy in 1790s by the chairman of the Navy's Sick and Hurt Board, Gilbert Blane. About 42,000 British sailors deserted during the war."

You got your ass handed to you, those who are colonized always win eventually against their colonial masters. And within a short period of time that 'wasteland' turned into the greatest story ever told in mankind's history - a democracy, of the people, by the people, for the people.