Why did the British preserve official ? documents

The British believed that the act of writing was important.

Every instruction, plan, policy decision, agreement, investigation had to be clearly written up.

Once this was done, things could be properly studied and debated.

The fight for American independence piqued the interest of Europe's most powerful colonial powers. ... Similar to how the colonies' dissatisfaction with the British was years in the making, European involvement in the American Revolution came at the end of a century filled with intense imperial rivalry.

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