This strategy is called Island Hopping. <span>After the Battle of Midway, the United States launched a counter-offensive strike known as "island-hopping," establishing a line of overlapping island bases, as well as air control.
colonists thought that they should not pay taxes, because they were passed in England by Parliament. They protested, saying that these taxes violated their rights as British citizens. The colonists started to resist by boycotting, or not buying, British goods.