How did king george III lose the American colonies?

Answer 1

Many reasons but here are 3:

1. America is just too big to subdue and defeat local armies. If Britain had managed to defeat the American army, the US soldiers would simply have gone back to the countryside and started a guerrilla campaign until they had time to re-form.

2. France and Spain allied with the Americans. When this occurred, the war was turned into a global conflict and Britain had to maintain military resources, particularly naval resources, in Europe to protect against attack. If France and Spain had remained outside the war, then Britain may have been able to send a large military presence to America.

3. The commitment of the colonials to fight for independence.

Answer 2

"The answer is a chain of events stringing from the French and Indian war to the day George Washington handed over his troops to the Continental Congress, officially ending the War for Independence."

King George didn't want anything to do with the colonies.

IMPROVED ANSWER:

The Revolutionary War in America cost Britain the most valuable part of its mighty empire - the American Colonies. One of the main reasons for the war was taxation. The colonists insisted that Britain had no right to tax them without their consent. King George III and his Tory advisers disagreed.

Britain sent troops to support its authority, and the colonists met force with force. As the war dragged on, Parliament increasingly urged George to give up. The king refused. He feared that if Britain lost the colonies, it would become a secondary power.

Britain did lose the war, and in 1783, it recognized the independence of the American Colonies. But Britain did not become a secondary power. In a few years, Britain had a more prosperous trade with the independent United States than it ever had with the colonies.

Answer 3

He accepted the defeat in North America, and authorised the negotiation of a peace. John Adams was appointed American Minister to London in 1785.

George had become resigned to the new relationship between his country and the States.

He told Adams, "I was the last to consent to the separation; but the separation having been made and having become inevitable, I have always said, as I say now, that I would be the first to meet the friendship of the United States as an independent power."

Answer 4

George III , of the House of Hanover