The British strategy at first was to contain revolutionary sentiment in Massachusetts. They tried it and it didn’t work so they were coming up with another strategy. Then someone came up with a new one. They said for them to capture New York, where many loyalists lived, so they could use it as a base. The British launched another plan and it was designed to split the New England off from the rest of the colonies. their battle of Saratoga was a crucial turning Point. There was another British army instead they had another plan. They wanted to seize Philadelphia and crush Washington’s army. Some of them went to cheapskate bay and marched to the north . They used cannons but not the same way they do today, today they use them like on a tank.
