Generalized insults! On Christmas Eve nonetheless! I definitely do not fit into this category! Bah humbug to you as well, good sir.
DAMMIT.
Now you make me realize how douchey I was. Well, if I take a hit, I deserve it (no, no sarcasm. Really).
Bermuda's value really came after the Revolution when it was suddenly a far-more strategic target due to America now being under its own auspices. That all the island was snagged by an American frigate in 1777 and scared off only by a (almost-dead, worthless) British ship at Gun Point is ignored by many people, or not even known. Have the American frigate press on it could easily take the island.
In 1779 the island starved so bad that American privateers nearly took the island - but lost out in
ten minutes to a British ship, HMS Delaware (oh irony) carrying both supplies and troops.
Should the Americans take Bermuda, the latent - and not so times latent, if the Gunpowder Incident of '75 is taken into consideration, or that
Bermuda persuaded Congress to not blockade it - Patriot sympathies gaurantee that they'll likely keep it. Georgia isn't exactly part of Britain now, and yet it was reabsorbed during the ARW. So Bermuda, should Americans successfully capture it. An entire sister colony that would likely send representatives to Congress is not about to be abandoned by America.