History A-Level
Resource limitations and strategic overstretch
What Resource limitations and strategic overstretch means in History A-Level, as defined for Pearson Edexcel.
Definition of Resource limitations and strategic overstretch
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Reference: Pearson Edexcel
Limited manpower, naval strength and finance made it difficult to hold territory and supply armies across the Atlantic.
Topics that use Resource limitations and strategic overstretch
- Paper 3, Option 35.1: Britain: losing and gaining an empire, 1763–1914 - 1 The loss of the American colonies, 1770–83 (Pearson Edexcel A-Level)
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