... were not neophytes. British leadership during the Revolutionary War and the era immediately preceding it thought they were defending liberty and the rule of law. To them, establishing the ultimate power of Parliament was the only way to accomplish this. A strange incongruity in the early stages of the war was that both sides claimed to be defending the British Constitution. On October 19, 1781, the British Army, under the generalship of Lord Cornwallis, lowered the British Flag from their ... 's military resources to additional priorities. England's Secretary of State for America and the...

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