History of the United States I / Unit 6 USH1 0768 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Why Britain Turned South
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The idea
By seventeen seventy-eight the war was deadlocked. Lord North favoured peace and George the Third demanded submission, and Britain turned south expecting greater Loyalist support.
In practice
Lord George Germain believing victory required Loyalists, enslaved people and Native allies.
Where people slip
The strategy assumed three populations would rise for the Crown. Only the calculation about enslaved people proved partly right.
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