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The difference here is that the US was a country engaged in guerrilla warfare with the English with rather primitive technology, here we have entire fleets that could simply bombard the planet's surface.Xander Blackmoore said:Histroy is full examples of underdogs criing major empires. Revolutionary War, War of 1812. Both were won by an inferior military, and boom we have the USA which has had the best military on the planet for 200 plus years.
One single planet up against a galaxy-spanning empire, for example, is not going to hold out for long.