1. The British Southern Strategy
... of February 1778, which specified neither partner would sign a separate peace without the "liberty, sovereignty, and independence"" of the United States (Henretta 170). Obligating France to help the Americans secure their independence from the British government. King George III realized he could not allow the American colonies to gain independence or other territories of Great Britain would surely follow. Having been defeated ... French, they would also be able to capture the tobacco and rice growing colonies of Virginia, Georgia, and the Carolinas. Britain's Southern Strategy original...
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