>>17821862
>"what? The colonists want some Parliamentary representation like the West Indies planters have? What's that? They want to keep the same local-representation with a Crown-appointed magistrate system they've had for literally a century but with some more leeway in setting taxes because agricultural crops are effected by yearly weather trends? Oh, so you're saying they'd like to deal directly with me, their sovereign, instead of a Parliament they have no representation with? Huh? You're telling me some of my finest generals, who have actually set foot on the continent and dealt directly with my subjects are also opposed to Parliament's overreach and think the colonies should have some say in their internal affairs? The same generals that just got done winning me the entire East Coast from New Brunswick to the Carolinas?"
>"what's this? A petition to me directly in 1774? Well, I - OOPS! *paper shredding nlises*
>"North! Howe! Ready the fleet! We're confiscating their powder."
Idk anon, you tell me

>sends in an army of German mercenaries led by a bunch of British Chads, several of whom only half-heartedly want the Rebels to be crushed
>miscommunication all the way through because they rely on French as the only language they both sort of understand
>refuses to sack North because he'd lose face or some dumb shit
>refuses to tap the son of the man who just won the last major war because he's a Catholic
>takes an L so massive he literally goes insane
>lives another four decades
Honestly, George getting Cromwell'd would have been less pitiful. Why did it never happen?