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They needed money from the war. But more than that George 111 was a complete idiot and did not like the likes of colonists telling him what not to do and I speak as a UK resident. He was too arrogant to realise that the colonists could not afford what he was asking, not could his people at home

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They needed to pay for the costs incurred by the French and Indian war. They used the colonists because the British people were overtaxed already.

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