Agent23
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And the British were imperialist bastards who liked to win back then.Torching New York, Philadelphia, and Boston - while painful - probably isn't enough to force an American capitulation.
They'd need to start torching Great Lakes cities like Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Chicago, Green Bay, and Milwaukee or something important in the interior a ship can't get to like Indianapolis.
We are stubborn bastards who don't like to lose.
Their army would also be quite well seasoned after the Crimean War and a number of huge colonial adventures and the Napoleonic shenanigans.
Also, is there a way to send naval assets to the great lakes?
I think you have a bunch of navigable rivers in North America.