[lentulusgracchus]

George [III] could have up and left and never concluded a peace, and we would have still been a sovereign nation in the community of nations.

Only provisionally, as long as the most powerful empire and only thalassocracy on earth insisted on her claim, and continued to demand we acknowledge our sovereign in the person of George III.

[capitan_refugio]

One might say the British did exactly that for the next 38 years.