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It's about 1780. The rebels in the American colonies have been crushed, their leaders hanged or jailed. A Loyalist governor oversees each of the 13-14-15 colonies, and answer to a new colonial minister in New York.
In 100 words or less, what went wrong for the rebels?
Why don't you get us started by offering your opinions on the matter? Otherwise this just seems like a homework assignment coming from someone who couldn't bother to teach first.
Why don't you get us started by offering your opinions on the matter? Otherwise this just seems like a homework assignment coming from someone who couldn't bother to teach first.
I'm about three decades past homework, and thought it was an interesting question to throw out. The fragile points of history have always fascinated me.
Simply turning in homework assignments, starting with my own, doesn't. Sorry to have wasted your time.
The fragile points of history have always fascinated me.
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But not sufficiently for you to have offered your take on your question. Do you have any scenarios in this regard? Or is your expectation that we are to supply them for you?
Well, let's see.
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what went wrong for the rebels?
My take is that General Burgoyne is right on the verge of surrendering at Saratoga, when suddenly a time traveling armored battalion from the British XXX Corps of 1944 materializes on the battlefield and routs the Americans.
Burgoyne then closes in on Albany and is on the brink of capturing it when a US squadron of F/A-18E Super Hornetfighters which inadvertently flew into a time vortex in 1991, arrives in the skies overhead and destroys the British tanks and armored vehicles.
Burgoyne is forced to retreat to Saratoga and is once more on the verge of surrendering, when suddenly Britain signs a Treaty of Mutual Defense with Godzilla and....
That you missed the point doesn't mean it wasn't there. You did correctly detect hostility. I do not care for these "what if?" threads where the OP cannot be bothered to do more than pose a counter factual scenario. What makes you think someone here will go for this when apparently even you don't find the speculation interesting enough to have any?
Washington was assassinated by a redcoat.
Howe, Burgoyne and Cornwallis defeated the rebels.
A hemp fire in Governors palace during a break from deliberations burned it down with all inside summer of 1776.
The 'green mountain boys' decided to shun firearms and embrace life in the woods.
Israel Bissell was thrown from his first horse and died.
Frances Marion died in the S.C. swamps.
New German successor Baron Trump couldn't navigate the swamp and his troops became ill and died.
Beech Lichen Mania spread throughout the colonies hindering communication between colonists.
John Adams got drunk on his homemade brew.
Also meant there was no 'British invasion' in 1964....
It's about 1780. The rebels in the American colonies have been crushed, their leaders hanged or jailed. A Loyalist governor oversees each of the 13-14-15 colonies, and answer to a new colonial minister in New York.
In 100 words or less, what went wrong for the rebels?
Discuss.
The rebels were disorganized from the start and get met with force from the British navy and army almost immediately. The British burn the major port cities of Boston, New York, Philly, and Charleston. A blockade is put up, and while not 100% effective, is an effective deterrent to trade, causing the merchant princes who supported the Revolution intially to balk. They can't even smuggle anymore. France thinks of joining the rebel's cause, but does not want to risk an all out war with Britain, who has made it clear they are not fooling around.
On land, the British adopt a "take no prisoners" attitude towards the rebels. All captured are hanged. Desertion becomes a huge issue as camp conditions are already bad, and the enemy gives no quarter. Morale drops after nearly every field battle is lost, and guerilla warfare proves ineffective as the British respond by burning the nearest community/farm/homesteads in the areas where the rebels operate.
The British win the war, but leave a huge lingering resentment that makes their tactics a Pyrrhic Victory, as the colonies become ungovernable. Within a generation functional independence is granted, although the King is still found on all the coins.
Wait...how many colonies were there?
But I can play. What went wrong?
The colonists allowed the previously British-led government to seize all the colonists' firearms.
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