Could the Thirteen Colonies have overcome the United Kingdom

>>1979814
Absolutely not. The French funding the Americans, as well as providing all the naval cockblocking from Spain, was pretty key.
Maybe if the Americans had have rebelled decades later with a larger population which had cash crops, as well as funds from said cash crops, then perhaps. And, even then, there would still have been internal difficulties such as overcoming the Loyalists.

If you count the war France was having with Britain at the time as aid, yeah, theyd have been zerg rushed by British soldiers pretty easily.

>>1979814
Probably not.

If the British were able to efficiently send reinforcements and supplies from the mainland without also being focused on continental opposition it would have been a significantly harder war for the colonists.

This is the case for basically every revolution and war of independence. 9/10 they succeed whenever the overlord is fighting someone else at the same time.

>>1979814
Propably not. Not enough military support and financing.

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Spain only helped naval wise, most of the land action was for our own benefit

>>1979828
How about not counting the war

>>1979814
Yep

>>1979814

Difficult to say: Certainly not within the timetable offered, but the sending of tens of thousands of troops to keep them there, possibly indefinitely, to hold onto the colonies wouldn't be something Parliament was up for.

In all likelihood, without French and Spanish aid, you'd see some sort of non-complete victory for the colonists, as the war devolves into a more classic insurgency.

>>1979852
naval help is pretty damn important if there's an ocean between you and your enemy