Great Britain’s joint operations in New York and the South during the War of American independence were strategic failures because she misinterpreted the nature of the war and falsely assumed the support of widespread loyalists in the American colonies, especially in the south. (Carpenter, lecture) The lack of strategic coherence throughout the campaigns coupled with governmental misperception and the inability to cut off the American supply support added to the failure as well. The initial assignment was to end the rebellion and restore the American colonies to their allegiance to the crown. (Fisher, p. 73) The British were accustomed to frequent rebellions in Scotland and Ireland and approached the rebellion in the colonies with a similar
