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Originally Posted by TopHatter
And the good subjects of Great Britain certainly didn't consider them to be anything but a mob of upstart colonials, certainly nothing their beloved Royal Navy should have been able to handle without a sweat.
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I don't know how true that statement is. The subjects had largely had high hopes for the Americas. Many of the settlers were British. The works of Payne et al were widely read in the UK and the public were not clamouring for war.
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