Why The American Revolution Failed

 The American revolution against Great Britain didn't fail, but it should have. There was a good reason it had to fail.

As you no doubt recall, North and South America were held as colonies by European masters.  In 1776 no colony had revolted, because a successful revolt was impossible. You know why, of course. All of the world's major gun makers and black powder plants were in Europe and Great Britain. It was an insightful European policy not to arm the colonies. They sold the colonies a few guns and a little black powder but not enough to matter.

When Massachusetts grew restive, the first move the British made was to march on Lexington and Concord to collect the guns in the armories. That went badly.

The Americans revolted and succeeded because the French King gave us hundreds of thousands of free muskets etc. The Americans had no money. His government went broke helping us and that brought on the French Revolution.

Once the United States formed, it became a major gun and ammo maker. Our capitalists supplied guns--at a steep price--to the revolutionaries in North and South America. We've been arms dealers ever since, according to a professor at Berkeley.