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In response to Kuruharan's first post on this thread. Superiority of numbers doesn't necessarily alway's win the day
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They may not always win the day but they will usually win the war.
With regards to the American Revolution, you have to remember that it was being fought on American soil thousands of miles away from Great Britain. So in a sense the couple thousand British soldiers and active militant Loyalists were outnumbered by a couple million Americans who were actively fighting (few), those who were latently supportive of the revolutionary movement (many), those who were apathetic enough to not commit to either side (many), and those who were loyal to the Crown but unwilling to risk anything in spite of it (many).
In a very real way the British were heavily outnumbered.