THE AMERICAN REVOLUTION 1775 1783
THE SECOND CONTINENTAL CONGRESS
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The colonists had defeated the British troops causing the British to retreat.
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Britain had gotten over it and no longer cared to fight.
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The British troops defeated the Colonists.
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Britain agreed to fight the colonists and crush their rebellion.
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Detailed explanation-1: -The documents arrived on August 21, 1775 whereupon the king refused to receive them. It would appear that the 1775 Olive Branch petition was simply too late. King George III had already made up his mind over the colonies. Reports of increasingly violent unrest in the Americas had been filtering in for months.
Detailed explanation-2: -However, George III did not even read the Olive Branch Petition. He did not read it, it seems, because he wanted to show his support for the policies of those ministers trying to repress the troubles in North America through force.
Detailed explanation-3: -“By the King, A Proclamation, For Suppressing Rebellion and Sedition” (1775) In this response to the so-called Olive Branch Petition, sent to the king by the Second Continental Congress on July 8, 1775, George III rejects the idea of reconciliation and declares the colonies to be in open rebellion.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Olive Branch Petition was adopted by Congress on July 5th, 1775 to be sent to the King as a last attempt to prevent formal war from being declared. The Petition emphasized their loyalty to the British crown and emphasized their rights as British citizens. The Congress met according to adjournment.