Well, the colonists have gone and done it. They have declared themselves independent of Great Britain, who has basically laughed off the Declaration of Independence, and is now ramping up their military to go whip those darn colonists back into line.
And like I said a couple of episodes ago, Great Britain was the world super-power in 1776. The colonies had only a few small militias, made up of mostly farmers.
But the colonists had home-field advantage, and that is going to mean a lot for them as they begin to go to battle with the British army. And the colonists had one other trump card – their commander in chief, General George Washington. We’ll talk about him more in a moment, but I’ll just say here that there probably wasn’t any other person, in all the colonies, who could have won the revolutionary war for the colonists.