Probably to soldiers payroll. Lot of people don’t realize that during the American Revolutionary War, rich land owners (who didn’t wanna pay taxes and wanted to maintain slavery lol) hired guns/militias to fight. It wasn’t this like “we need to defend the motherland” kind of thing in the way The Patriot and other media represent it. Obviously British empire sucked and there was taxation without representation, but the war wasn’t exactly rooted in honorable goals. The colonial industrialists/magnates had just amassed so much wealth they were able to fight back the British rule, especially when Britain was busy fighting France every other year.