William Pitt helped the British by by pouring in money, troops, and equipment. The result was that the British won the war.
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Admiral Richard Howe was a British Admiral who served in the Royal Navy during the Seven Years War, the Revolutionary War, and the French Revolution. General William Howe was a British General who was in command of British forces in North America during the Revolutionary War.
The country that helped America in the American War of Independence is France.
The taxes were to help pay for the French and Indian war. They reasoned that they were protecting the colonists and the colonists were English subjects so they should help pay for the war.
During the Revolutionary War, the British had the advantage of a powerful fleet. They could conquer any port city they wanted. They never figured out how to conquer the countryside. While it took General Washington a little while to figure it out, the Americans did not have to defeat a large British Army in a pitched battle. They just had to outlast the British. The Americans could wait in the countryside and pick off smaller British units.Finally, William Pitt the Younger convinced the British Parliament that maintaining the war did not make any economic sense. If England collected all the taxes from America that Parliament had voted, it would not pay for keeping the British Army in America. Thus, England signed a peace treaty.
Genral Howe was a British General who had commanding control over Philidelphia during 1777 during the rvolutionary war. Later in the year his job as commanding General was taken by another British General known as General Henry Clinton.