He drafted soldiers and raised taxes making himself less popular, underestimated the power of nationalism, and lost most of his army in Russia.
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A. Refusing to help France in it's war with Great Britain
Let's take a look at the name: colonies. If a land is a colony, it is a colony of something, that is, there is some other land that has control over it: in this case this was Great Britain: Great Britain had claims and control over the colonies.
True, Father Junipero Serra was a Roman Catholic priest and friar of of the Franciscan who founded a missionary in Baja California.