HIS103Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Perfidious Albion
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Pitt"s strategy , there"s an outbreak of war in north america. The 13 states that will form what is america today. However are not united yet - independent of each other. Looking to london in defense, put increasing land on london not only defend them but insist. They want london to defeat france and demolish canada - america (not yet america though) They are very concerned about their liberties and new layer of rules. London wants the internal power of what is canada. Ethnic cleansing of fear of uprising in north america. They don"t trust what will happen to their independent liberties if they unite. The war gets off to a very bad start for britain in north america in which they loose, and the. French take manorka, which brings a massive uproar. British now lost navel engagement and territory, public outrage, lost majorca. Pitt very sure of himself thinks he can be the best.
