RE: How is the American Revolution taught in the UK?
July 13, 2012 at 1:18 pm
(This post was last modified: July 13, 2012 at 1:19 pm by Autumnlicious.)
I'd like to point out that making impromptu treaties with hostile natives without involving the colonies assent (or figurehead there of) certainly did not win favors.
There are hundreds more little slights and omissions, that given the colonies status as holding the people Britain didn't want (Puritans! Who ever wants them!), would definitely bias the colonists away from their administrating country.
Fine, Americans are greedy and ungrateful. But the British are stupid, inattentive and hamfisted.
Subtlety was needed to retain the colonies. That or presenting a bigger threat.
Neither was done (actually, the bigger threat (Native Tribes) became part of the British threat).
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is an interesting phrase to consider.
There are hundreds more little slights and omissions, that given the colonies status as holding the people Britain didn't want (Puritans! Who ever wants them!), would definitely bias the colonists away from their administrating country.
Fine, Americans are greedy and ungrateful. But the British are stupid, inattentive and hamfisted.
Subtlety was needed to retain the colonies. That or presenting a bigger threat.
Neither was done (actually, the bigger threat (Native Tribes) became part of the British threat).
"The enemy of my enemy is my friend" is an interesting phrase to consider.
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