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To hold together. Coercion just played into the seperatist's hands. By the time of Yorktown even a crushing victory could only have delayed American independence, and would thus have done even more damage to British finances. Late in the war even the British government understood this, but they saw no exit srategy and so kept muttering nonsense about "loss of prestige", "not letting the sacrifice of our soldiers be in vain", "protecting local allies" etc while blood and treasure were wasted. Posted by derrida derider on January 10,2010 01:48 AM A thoroughly enjoyable piece on the American Revolution... However, I understood General Howe's results were somewhat different than what this essay depicts. A number of years ago I had read a piece by another historian whose name I cannot remember, that put Howe in a better position than this article describes. Yes, he was cautious but as I understand it he was not interested in causing bloodshed but more interested in gaining ground through
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