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[kandrathe]

England's control of the colonies terrorism? Please.

If anything, it was the Americans who were the terrorists in that case. The American "patriots" used asymmetric warfare and propaganda (via the printing press) to their advantage. Had we mustered an army, and squared off against the British, I fear we'd be more like Canada.

An example or their guerrilla tactics was to use buildings to house snipers to kill off British officers, which the British responded to by burning down the buildings, making great fodder for the propaganda sheets. Washington spent months retreating through the countryside, utilizing an attrition strategy to expend the British resources and taking advantage or their reliance on the traditional warfare conducted by gentlemen soldiers. Or, the battle of Trenton, where the Americans waited until the Hessians had laid up for the winter, and then surprised them in an early morning attack.

Let us not speak of the notorious John Paul Jones, and his raids in the Ranger against merchant shipping in the Irish sea and his assaults on St. Mary's Isle and Whitehaven.