Answer: It is clearly obvious that the colonials not only attempted to forestall payments on what Britain considered long overdue taxes but succeeded at costing the British Empire more than three hundred thousand pounds a year. The colonials resisted many changes, since they felt secure without the French to the north. Many colonists lost respect for Britain due to a sub par performance in battles throughout the war. The English felt quite differently, in fact they had a notion that the colonists had been illegally trading with Canada during the war. The English felt that the burden of debt must be shared. Ultimately most of the war was footed by the English back home