<span>a prison camp for the confinement of enemy aliens, prisoners of war, political prisoners, etc.</span>
The fighting between France and Britain in Europe and the Caribbean helped the American cause because 2) it left fewer British troops to fight in North America. The Americans had often felt ill-equipped compared to the British army, so the less people there were fighting for the British side, the better.
The American Revolution was a radical revolution that was motivated by the call for liberty, equality and respect for natural rights that ultimately ended with the Declaration of Independence, which sought to create a society that could serve as a model of freedom for the rest of the world.