Why did Britain's success in defeating the French Empire led to failure in dealing with its colonial subjects?

Answer 1

They spent a fortune on the French and Indian Wars and couldn't raise enough to assemble a more formidable fighting force.

Since they were broke they instated many taxes that angered the American people leading to the phrase "No taxation without representation." The Americans began to adopt the Native American fighting style of guerrila warfare where they would hide in the forests and attack rather then face the army on an open field. This was made popular by Francis Marrion otherwise knows as the Swamp Fox Pretty much, the entire problem was because they needed more money and when they went to the colonist with taxes, the colonist refused, rebeled, and the Revolutionary War had broken out.

Answer 2

The French were the English's main rivals for countless years, and the evenntuall victory over the French came at a high price. England's countless wars cost a great deal of money pressuring it to extract resources from its colonies. This along with the development of individual political entities in Britain's colonies led to a feeling that the English were no longer needed in these areas. The main purpose of English unity( in the colonists mind) was for protection from peoples such as the French, and with their defeat that connection was no longer necessary for the colonies to survivers. The English then were not seen as protectors' They were seen as people who extracted money and wealth from the colonies at the colonists' expense.