Overconfidence

 The British had the most powerful armada in Europe and even though they were defeated by the Colonists. But why did this hapen? The answer to this quiestion can be simplified to a single word, overconfidence. By 1775 the British had been defeated by the Colonists in Concord because they had inferior war tactics, like going into the battle dressed up in red. At plain sunlight they were an easy target even for the worst gunman. The Colonists in the other hand adopted the indian war tactics, they hid behind rocks and bushes and tried the most they could to be camouflaged. To retake the hills that the Colonists took in the outsides of Boston the British Commander Lord William Howe took control of the troops and he ordered a frontal attack. He attacked twicw and two times the colonists won, but in the third attack the colonists ran out of bullets and Howe took the hills. The colonists lost but they won two out of three times and that kept their encouragement rising. while the colonists encourage themeselves more and more every day the British were been humiliated in the fields.