I showed them! Or did i just shoot myself in the foot?

[Megas Methuselah]

Playing as France, 1704, my American holdings are being savaged by native American tribes, have lost 3 territories in the Americas, am struggling to fight an enemy whose basic units outrange and outdamage my mid-range units, and whose cavalry brushes my best cavalry aside like the wind brushes aside leaves.

So when the UP declared war on me and took French Guyann i thought... AH HA! An enemy i know i can defeat. Being enraged at having to fight battle after battle against an enemy i simply can't defeat, even when i outnumber them, i jumped at the chance of a victory, and went straight in for the UP's capital city. Took it at a loss of about 3% of the total army sent to take it, which was 14 units of this and that, but good god you should see the happiness of the city.

Even with tax exemption upper class is -28 in the red and lower class -30 in the red. There's no way I'm going to be able to hold this. When it rebels back to the UP will they regain their overseas territories, provided they are still in rebel hands?

The Tribes are quite easy to beat, especially since they usually go heavy in melee. If you're unable beat a melee army with muskets, then... Well, I don't know what to say. There's a good reason muskets brought melee armies into obseletion.

Destroy the university and don't worry about riots. In ETW they can't damage your army and the rebel army is usually quite weak.

Yeah, I became something of an expert in holding capital cities by now. Keep a garrison there, about 10 units strong. Keep the tax rate up. Destroy the universities, replace them with churches/pleasure gardens (although the riots will constantly damage them).

Then just wait 20-30 turns until those "resisting foreign invasion" points go down. You will have to crush the rebels every 3 turns, but it's rather quite easy, albeit time-consuming.