I will give kudos to the Brits for what they accomplished. The Thirteen colonies and Canada later on simply shouldn't have even been defended by the British since they were self sustaining and too far away to really be plausible.
One thing the British should have done is conquered continental Europe during that time, since I think they would have done relatively well. Didn't help they had a dumbass unpatriotic German King George. I doubt most Brits even liked him.
The Brits actually did mostly appreciate the Hanoverian kings, because they were protestants, they were fertile (so no succession issues), and they let the British parliament run things mostly as they wanted. They had had enough of meddling Catholic kings by 1688.
Fun fact: The last British monarch to be personally on a battlefield was George II (son of George I), who was present at the Battle of Dettingen in Germany in the 1740's.
The Dettingen battle honour is still flown on the regimental colors of the main royal British regiments (Blues and Royals, The Life Guards, and a few others)
As a Brit I find it hysterical we ever thought we could keep the colonies given the calibre of men we fought against.
I will give kudos to the Brits for what they accomplished. The Thirteen colonies and Canada later on simply shouldn't have even been defended by the British since they were self sustaining and too far away to really be plausible.
One thing the British should have done is conquered continental Europe during that time, since I think they would have done relatively well. Didn't help they had a dumbass unpatriotic German King George. I doubt most Brits even liked him.
The Brits actually did mostly appreciate the Hanoverian kings, because they were protestants, they were fertile (so no succession issues), and they let the British parliament run things mostly as they wanted. They had had enough of meddling Catholic kings by 1688.
Fun fact: The last British monarch to be personally on a battlefield was George II (son of George I), who was present at the Battle of Dettingen in Germany in the 1740's.
The Dettingen battle honour is still flown on the regimental colors of the main royal British regiments (Blues and Royals, The Life Guards, and a few others)