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Ireland and the American Revolution,trated by the East India Regulating Bill of 1773. Policies within the framework of imperial centralisation had also been implemented with some success in Ireland. These policy-making triumphs, however, were not matched in America. The North ministry’s inflexible handling of the American dispute led

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Legislative Independence, colonies. But the East India Company’s operations were threatened by the outbreak of the second Mysore war, and British naval dominance was challenged by the formation of the league of armed neutrality. This unsettled imperial backdrop made it essential that a measure of stability was restored to I

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Reforming the Undertaker System: Pelhamite Ireland,behind British imperial government had not changed, though there was perhaps a greater willingness to spend money on imperial defence and administration, if possible with increased contributions from the colonies. There was certainly a more determined effort to put Britain’s imperial aims into pract

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Lord Townshend and Constant Residency,recent movements in that direction by Bristol and the Chatham ministry, had promoted a certain amount of expectation in both Britain and Ireland. Moreover, now at least a viceroy had been found who took his post seriously and had no objections to living in Ireland. It was partly the tenacity of Town

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Ireland and the American Revolution,found preference for conciliation could not disguise the fact that he still believed in the necessity of supporting British parliamentary supremacy over the American colonies. With neither side willing to give way on the fundamental point of difference, it was only a matter of time before the tensio

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Legislative Independence,bsence of parliamentary management. In the latter months of his administration the Castle party had suffered defeats at the hands of the Irish opposition that must have ranked amongst the most humiliating of this period of imperial crisis.