[revwardoc]

You're right about the continental army not using "indian" tactics during the Rev War. Aside from April 19, 1775 and several skirmishes down south, the war was fought in set-piece European style with massed artillery and columns and rows of soldiers. Washington knew that fighting indian style would've meant that any potential allies would've thought twice about coming to the aid of a guerilla army.

While Britain didn't have any organized anti-war protestors like here in the '60's and '70's, they did have their share of detractors, mostly in the form of businessmen who were losing great amounts of money due to the interruption of commerce caused by American privateers and French, Spanish and Dutch naval vessels. Its kind of ironic that the catalyst of the Revolution was taxation of American colonies by Britain to pay for the cost of fighting the 7 Years War (aka; French and Indian War). In the long run it cost them even more to fight a second war in North America. Plus they had systematically shut down American industries to keep them from competing with British interests (we could produce some manufactured goods cheaper here since the source of raw materials was here and didn't have to be imported).