Why Did the British Win the Battle of Germantown?
Major Reason #1 – The British forces outnumbered the American forces – and were better trained and equipped As previously mentioned, the British Royal Army had an inherent advantage in nearly every Revolutionary War battle. But it wasn’t just that the British Royal Army had a numerical advantage of troops. Man for man, the typical British soldier was far better trained, better fed, better paid, and better equipped, than his American counterpart in the Continental Army. So the British would have had a decided advantage at Germantown, even if the size of the armies had been identical. And in this case, as in so many others, the British also were more numerous. Major Reason #2 – The Weather Did Not Cooperate With Washington – The Fog Wreaked Havoc on the Continental Army, and Some Americans Fired Upon Each Other In the 18th-century, with no reliable weather forecasts beyond almanacs, generals and armies were at the mercy of the weather. Washington’s gamble would have had a better chance o
