Botany Bay – Lord Sydney, Arthur Phillip & ‘Hush Christopher Robin’ – Mark 2
Tuesday, March 3rd, 2020‘It will be asked why, when we [Britain] have as great if not a greater, force than we ever had, the enemy are superior to us. To this it is to be answered that England till this time [1778-83] was never engaged in a sea war with the House of Bourbon [France and Spain] thoroughly united, their naval force unbroken, and resources, and having no other war or object to draw off their attentions and resources’. Lord Sandwich cited Robert .J. King, The Secret History of the Convict Colony, Sydney 1990
America – 1775: At Lexington in April 1775 Britain went to war with her North American colonists. But not all of them. Those loyal to the Crown fought their Patriot brothers alongside British troops.
Against all odds General George Washington’s Patriot rebels won America’s struggle for independence.
France – 1778: In February 1778 France signed a formal alliance with the United States.
England- 1778: The following month, March 1778, Britain declared war on France.
Spain – 1779: In 779 Spain entered the conflict and assisted the French with logistical support.
‘Although Spain never officially allied with the United States its entry into the Revolutionary War alongside France turned a regional North American conflict into a global war and forced Britain to divert its vaunted Royal Navy to defend other interests around the world’. The American Revolution – A World War, eds .notes, Spanish Naval Operations. Ed. David K. Allison & Larrie D. Ferreiro, Smithsonian Books, Washington D.C. 2013