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by unity1001 1274 days ago
France and Spanish warships were patrolling off the coast of North America and preventing the English from bringing in reinforcements. Various naval battles happened.

But ever more important was the invasion of British Isles that the French and Spanish were preparing. That literally locked down the British army and navy to Britain and made it impossible for them to supply the colonial armies.

So when the French volunteers, Prussian trainers arrived in North America on top of that, the tide of war has changed.