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Advantages and disadvantages of the British

British Disadvantages Great Britain Had many disadvantages. Lord north was a disadvantage to Britain because he specialized in politics and economics. Lord North was not the person who they needed in the war. He tried to resign on numerous occasions but King George III never let him. King George was a Mad/Paranoid man and he trusted lord north. He feared that if someone took Lord North's spot they would plot against King George III. So Lord North had to stay..
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King George was a huge disadvantage To Britain. One thing that made King George a mad leader was that he was mad(crazy). The wigs they wore were laced with a drug that caused some people to go crazy. Sadly King George was one of the people affected by the drug(arsenic). If he had not giving such harsh taxes America might not of revolted.
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Britain's military was a big disadvantage, because there conditions the had to put up with were horrible. Some troupes had to travel more then 3000 miles. The treatment of the men was deplorable and cruel. There provisions were inadequate(old, and wormy). One man was lashed 800 times for striking C.O. The men hardly got paid anything so it was not worth working in the army. The Generals were second rate and didn't do a good job at motivating the men. Britain had to win the was because if they didn't they work look weak to the rest of the world. While on the other hand america was not so post to win the war anyway. Plus America was 600,000 square miles so it would be hard for Britain to control the whole thing. Brittan's resources were spread thin because they were already at war with Ireland. The last advantage America had over Britain was that America didn't have one big city that Britain could take over. The last disadvantage was that the Britain's men had to travel about 3000 miles to get to America so reinforcements took a long time to arrive.

Advantages

Britain had great navel forces that help them make it as long as they did in the war. They would average about fifty-thousand normal troupes. About thirty-thousand Hessian. A Hessian is a eighteenth-century German men in service with the British Empire that fought against American colonists during revolutionary war. They also had thirty-thousand American loyalists.​Britain has a big population (roughly 2.5-7.5 million people). This was an advantage because if Britain need more farmers to make more supplies for the men ,or have emergency men drafted to the army they could do it because they had the men. They could make more boats of they needed to. Britain had some advantages in America ,the loyalists they would do a lot for Britain. They would quarter troupes and give them a food supply. They would join the British army and fight for them. Some people would even spy on America. They loyalists would do everything they could to serve great Britain.

Britain has monetary wealth this allowed them to pay for trips to America and back. The money they had funded a lot of other stuff. They had to pay for bullets, guns, cannons, Ships, Hessian, supplies, and Medical supplies