WEINTRAUB: Britain lost the war because General Washington had two other generals on his side. One was `General Demography,' population. The population was burgeoning. And the other general that Washington had on his side was `General Atlantic,' that is Atlantic Ocean.
In 1775, political and economic concerns led the inhabitants of Britain's 13 American colonies to rebel in the War of Independence (1775-83). Although the conflict led to the loss of Britain's American territories, not everyone supported the rising and it divided families and communities across North America.
The Suez Crisis, 1955 But under pressure from the USA, a ceasefire was put in place, and Britain ultimately lost control over the canal in what many remember as a humiliating defeat.
The colonists fought the British because they wanted to be free from Britain. They fought the British because of unfair taxes. They fought because they didn't have self-government.
What led to a civil war in England? Under Charles I, tensions over the legitimate powers of the king and Parliament escalated into war.
By the 1770s, many colonists were angry because they did not have self-government. This meant that they could not govern themselves and make their own laws. They had to pay high taxes to the king. They felt that they were paying taxes to a government where they had no representation.
No Representation The colonists felt that the British government had no right to tax them because there were not any representatives of the colonies in the British Parliament. The colonies had no say in how much the taxes should be or what they should pay for. They didn't think this was fair.
American victory. The British marched into Lexington and Concord intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists. Instead, their actions sparked the first battle of the Revolutionary War.