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WI Britain targetted the stocks, supplies and production of gunpowder as the priority when faced with insurrection in the american colonies?

This would need intelligence (easily had from loyal americans), a naval blockade against french resupply and deep penetration by light infantry and artillery against any attempts to start up production inland away from rivers.

In fact any such attempt would be of limited use as the transport infrastructure to bring it in quantity to a moving army was not readily to be found.

This would leave the insurrectionists unable to meet the British forces in open battle and ultimately open to being kept on the move and defeated in detail once British troop forces are enlarged and more loyal americans are emboldened to join up rather than waver in fear of revolutionary intimidation.
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