Genivaria wrote:Yorkers wrote:
It's not that they were punitive, it's that they were not consented to. Didn't we all learn "No Taxation Without Representation" in elementary school?
Also, it was part of a long list of transgressions, most onerously, Britain prevent Americans from settling the Ohio Country, even though many had just fought and died to conquer those lands just ten years before.
Because the Empire didn't want to cause trouble with the natives.
Then why fight a war against them?