Ms. Sue can you help me to understand what author is trying to argue in this paragraph.

Question

While it is true, as Linda Colley has argued, that war contributed to the
development of British identity during the eighteenth century, in this
case, the experience of war and disease contributed to a developing
sense of provincial distinctiveness, just as there were distinctive
‘American’ ways of fighting war in the North American wilderness

Answer 1

Ms. Colley is saying that in some ways, the British were known around the world for their wars. However, the combination of war and regional diseases showed that the various colonies were each distinctive. In other words, since the diseases of North America and Asia were so different that the British were different in each place.