Was America's victory in the Revolutionary War as much as a longshot as it is portrayed?

by JohnMiltonJamesJoyce

The Revolutionary war is often, at least in America, portrayed as an underdog story. How true was this?

Superplaner

I answered a similar question a while back, here it is if you're interested. If you want a TL;DR mine is "No, not really. After -1777 I can't see that a victory for Britain was ever even a possibility".