User blog comment:Omnicube1/Napoleon Bonaparte vs. George Washington/@comment-86.85.123.53-20110224162149/@comment-1438304-20110224230635

No, they didn't pay becasue They didn't like paying all this money to Britain becasue for all the money they were paying they weren't getting any representation in Parliemnt, Had they had the right to have a say in parliment they proably wouldn't revolted. Besides Britain didn't give the Colonies moeny to defend themselves at the time they were part of the British Empire so it was Britain responsabilty to protect them dummy. Learn some History before you start judging it.