I don't believe that the British have ever admitted having lost the stoush in 1776 or the American War of 1812 either. They were never "wars" as such, they were what would be termed by a Reagan White House (and probably a Bush one as well) as "police actions".

When you look at it objectively, the War of Independence was a rather internecine little dustup, of little consequence to the British Crown, which was soon improving is revenues in areas which gave them a lot less grief. And in fact it had its good points, too, because the British actually learned a thing or too which they put to good use during, in particular, the Peninsular War a few years later. Shame they forgot how to learn after that!


The idiot also known as Capfka ...