Introduction

The british ministry misdiagnosed the blem and then tenaciously clung to their initial misdiagnosis. They never could decide whether they were waging a war of military destruction or political reconciliation. Adding to this incoherence was the fact that neither stick nor carrot was pursued with enough vigor to be effective. Lord north was finally able to resign in march 17 82. And in his parting remarks, he said bluntly that anybody who tried to carry on the war was an enemy of britain.