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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:01:49 PM No.17796059
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In retrospect, where did it go wrong for the British?
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:03:35 PM No.17796060
being british
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:16:42 PM No.17796087
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>>17796059 (OP)
when they bended the knee to the French-Canadian BVLLS they supposedly """conquered"""
>"uhm... we rule you..."
>"o-oh, uh, o-okay, you can stay catholic... and practice the seigneurie system... a-and we'll toss away the Test Serment... please don't revolt..."
stay mad, loyalist bootlickers LMAO
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:36:31 PM No.17796124
Ending 150 years of salutary neglect in a snap was retarded. They could have gotten away with it if they did it gradually, but they didn't.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 7:49:33 PM No.17796150
The moment George III took the throne. He was a bumbling retard who couldn't even manage his own ministry, let alone a war on the other side of the ocean.
>"yes, yes, of course the West Indies Planters can have upwards of 20 members in Parliament, why shouldn't they?"
>"what? Those fucking ungrateful, backwater peasants in the colonies want representation? In Parliament?!? They want to deal with me directly as their sovereign!?!? GERMAIN, READY THE FLEET TO SAIL!!!"
Absolute retard by any and all accounts.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:02:22 PM No.17796168
The colonists, being majority British, naturally held the British government in contempt. Unlike the British subjects living in Britain, however, they had an ocean between them and the hated government which afforded them a great deal of autonomy, enough that they were able to affect organized military resistance to the crown, a proud British tradition.

Where this resistance differed from the peasant and baronial revolts of the past however was that it was organized along ideological lines with the intent of creating a wholly new state rather than merely affirming the rights and privileges of landowners or trying to curb the excesses of the landowners.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 8:09:33 PM No.17796188
>>17796059 (OP)
The territories were too large. instead of thirteen states there should have been dozens and dozens of them with autonomy against each other to promote balkanization.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 9:40:03 PM No.17796397
>>17796059 (OP)
It was still fairly new to empire and lacked the managerial experience to make it work over such a vast distance and while competing with France and spain.
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Anonymous
6/27/2025, 10:48:36 PM No.17796584
Would Britain have focused on Australia, Africa, and Asia as much if America stayed in the empire?
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:50:13 PM No.17796707
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>>17796059 (OP)
They really did not know how to manage their popular perception among the colonials.
Hell, if they had just asked the local governments to raise taxes for the good of the empire instead of unilaterally imposing them, there wouldn't have been a revolution. The 1700s were a time where the colonies were growing closer in culture and identity to Great Britain, and most colonials took pride in the rights they were guaranteed as Englishmen.

But time and time again the British showed the colonials that not only were they not Englishmen, but that the crown and parliament they revered outright despised them.

During the war actions such as stealing from colonial's homes for provisions, occasional raping of colonial women, the liberation of the slaves of rebellious colonials, allying with the native tribes who had been the long-standing enemy of the colonials, treating all American POWs as traitors and leaving them to die slowly of disease on prison ships (even when they were children) and a long line of other abuses by the British made more and more people support the continentals, dooming the royal control over the 13 colonies.
Anonymous
6/27/2025, 11:52:17 PM No.17796718
>>17796397
It was in the empire for over 100 years. That's plenty of time.
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:43:22 AM No.17796822
>>17796059 (OP)
The cope is that Jamaica was way more important than the American colonies.
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:47:43 AM No.17796831
>>17796059 (OP)
Overspending and trying to make up for it by making the colonists pay for it
Anonymous
6/28/2025, 12:50:58 AM No.17796838
>>17796822
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Anonymous
6/28/2025, 1:32:56 AM No.17796898
>>17796059 (OP)
Back home in the UK, the average citizen had pro-crown propaganda drilled into their heads 24/7. The colonies were too far away for this, so they aquired a taste for what it was like to be somewhere that didn't feel like a monarchy was constantly breathing down their necks and eventually they stopped wanting to be British. The King took it for granted that the average colonists was not like the average British subject in this regard.