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This week episode 207 British, and French Distraction.

For the last couple of weeks, I've covered some of the issues that the Continental Congress and Continental Army

faced as it entered 1779. This week I want to take a look at

Britain and France and see what they were planning for the new year. The North

Ministry in London was under siege. For years they had been assuring

Parliament that they had this whole American rebellion under control and that

application of military enforcement would restore order and crown authority.

The opposition in Parliament had countered that the colonies had grown too powerful

and that forcibly restoring order while refusing to address

colonial demands was a losing proposition.

Events over the past couple of years had proven the ministry wrong and the opposition correct. The

events over the past couple of years had proven the ministry wrong and the opposition correct.

The failure of General Howe's massive military buildup in 1776

to disperse the continentals had been strike one.

The loss of Burgoyne's army at Saratoga in late 1777 was strike two.

The entry of France into the war in early 1778 was strike three.

Only the urging of the king himself was keeping the ministry in place. All of the opposition's worst predictions were coming true,

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