They resented what they saw as oppressive and inept British interference. The colonists were accustomed to dealing effectively with their governmental issues. The American colonists, before the French and Indian War, were maturing politically, while British royal governors tended to be lazy, ignorant, and neglectful. This lack of British comprehension, combined with ever-increasing American self-confidence, exacerbated by irrational British taxation, fed the drive for independence. They did not understand the specifics of the accelerating social and political changes in America. The British Government bungled relations with her American colonies. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat.
If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. Bungling of relations and under-estimation of the American Colonies Significant, too, is the fact that the American Revolution was but one part of a wider world war.
The reasons presented here for the British defeat are interrelated and compounding.Logistical complexities, exacerbated by the terrain, aided the largely unconventional tactics of the Americans while undermining the set-piece tactics of the British. Few at the time would have put money on an American victory over the British Empire. British Redcoats drive off Rebel militia at Lexington in 1775.
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