At Concord, near the bridge where the fighting took place on April 19, 1775, there is a small memorial to the British soldiers who died there. My sympathies are entirely on the side of the Revolutionaries (I had an ancestor on the American side at Yorktown), but I found it poignant--these men died so far from home, doing their duty...in support of a pigheaded king and an arrogant Parliament.
A famous British scholar, now deceased, once came to speak in the US and revealed his connection to American history--he was descended from an illegitimate son of Lord Cornwallis.
My limited understanding is that the Whigs in the minority in Parliament, and somehow the King had many Tory MPs in his pocket.