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They might want to show there power because sitting down may not make them look as strong.

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because the British might think that they have to surrender since they are with the strongest army of the world.

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I think Benjamin was been say by government that British and america is not friend anymore or British don't want to be friend with american.

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They might want to show there power because sitting down may not make them look as strong.

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The British delegation refused to sit for the painting because the British has done something to Benjamin f.

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The British delegation refused to sit for the painting because all those people in the painting want the declaration for independence and the British didn't, plus the British lost the war.

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The British did not sit because they were angry for loosing to the colonists.

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The British delegation refused to sit for the painting probably because the British has done something to Benjamin West or his family like insult him, so Benjamin refused to add the British into his work. Or the British disliked the Americans so much that they were so ashamed that they didn't want to get in the painting. They couldn't except their loss to the Americans.

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Because the British might think that they have surrender since they are with the Americans.

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The British delegation refused to sit for the painting because they didn't want to accept the fact that they lost the war and the shame for it.

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British were angry and mad were really bitter. Americans hated British and the British hated the Americans, so they didn't sit for the painting.The British were ashamed of themselves.

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They did not sit because they maybe wanted to be different

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The British delegation refused to sit for the painting because the Colonists had just fought the British and won. I think the British were angry and that is the reason they didn't want to sit with them.

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I think they had big, humongous, clever brains because they did not want to sit next to the British and they did not want to have arguments. And they were angry because they lost the war.

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The British Delegation refused to sit for the painting because they didn't like how the war came to an end.

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I it unfinished because British did not think that they were equal.

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The British refused to sit for the painting because the colonists have become traitors to British empire

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The British delegation refused to sit for the painting because they weren't equal from each other. They were defeated from battle so they don't want to embarrassed themselves.

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Benjamin west did not paint the British on the painting because the British lose to american.

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The British delegation refused to sit in the painting because the British were angry because the Americans had just been beaten them in the war.

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The British refused to agree with the Americans in anything, as tensions were way too high

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The British refused to sit in the painting because they were angered by the outcome of the war. Also, the painting seems to portray unity and the painter didn't want to add the British because they were against the colonists.

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I think the British delegation refused to sit for the painting because they probably were afraid that one thing could lead to another because of the tension between the two plus it would be very awkward