On since we are talking about the revolutionary war the answer is be because the french did not want to be humiliated if they where defeated
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Philip Percival, Jim Posewitz, Jeff Flocken, Brian Herne and Stuart A. Marks
<span>Civil disobedience is the active, professed refusal to obey certain laws, demands, and commands of a government, or of an occupying international power. </span>
The 4th option is your answer