Who made up the armies led by the British generals in America?
More than half the total number who served in America came from the colonies, the colonies which had barely a third of the population of Great Britain.

True, Britain paid the bill in money but why not?
She was rich with a vast accumulated capital.

The war, partly in America, had given her the key to the wealth of India.

Look at the magnificence, the pomp of servants, plate and pictures, the parks and gardens, of hundreds of English country houses, and compare this opulence with the simple mode of life, simplicity imposed by necessity, of a country gentleman like George Washington of Virginia, reputed to be the richest man in America.

Thousands of tenants in England, owning no acre of land, were making a larger income than was possible in America to any owner of broad acres.