Ambrose Serle

Ambrose Serle (1742-1812)cite book |author=Weintraub, Stanley |authorlink= |editor= |others= |title=Iron tears: America's battle for freedom, Britain's quagmire, 1775-1783 |edition= |language= |publisher=Free Press |location=New York |year=2005 |origyear= |pages= p342|quote= |isbn=0-7432-2687-9 |oclc= |doi= |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=pYJEilG5V4MC&pg=PA342&dq=%22Ambrose+Serle%22++1742+1812&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&ei=9ah7SNmxN4HAigHm0uzBBA&sig=ACfU3U3_io879UkydlkT3cebAjFIBesDLQ|accessdate=] was an English civil servant, diarist and writer of Christian prose and hymns.

His "The American Journal of Ambrose Serle, Secretary to Lord Howe 1776-1778" is a primary source in the history of the American Revolution. The Lord Howe concerned was Richard Howe, 1st Earl Howe. Ambrose Serle was the private secretary to the British general William Howe.cite book |author=Volo, James M. |authorlink= |editor= |others= |title=Blue water patriots: the American Revolution afloat |edition= |language= |publisher=Praeger Publishers |location=New York |year=2007 |origyear= |pages= p182|quote= |isbn=0-275-98907-0 |oclc= |doi= |url= http://books.google.com/books?id=uH8jkuWnbEcC&pg=PA182&dq=%22Ambrose+Serle%22+secretary+%22William+Howe%22&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&ei=nad7SP6pMIS8jgGuj_T1Aw&sig=ACfU3U1aKErUvqZZp96_jLbrSNt9hnVKag|accessdate=] He was the author of "Americans Against Liberty" a pamphlet published anonymously that defends the British Empire as a rightful and just government.cite book |author=Adams, Willi Paul |authorlink= |editor= |others= |title=The first American constitutions: Republican ideology and the making of the state constitutions in the Revolutionary era |edition= |language= |publisher=Rowman & Littlefield Publishers |location=Lanham, Md |year=2001 |origyear= |pages= p167|quote= |isbn=0-7425-2068-4 |oclc= |doi= |url=http://books.google.com/books?id=sTSMmWQSR7UC&pg=PA167&dq=%22Ambrose+Serle%22+%22Americans+Against+Liberty%22&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&ei=a6J7SMXALYOOjAHO0JTaDg&sig=ACfU3U2UCMZY1I9WS955zlSKbSjb22jNFw |accessdate=] cite book|last=Halkett|first=Samuel|coauthors=John Laing|title=A dictionary of the anonymous and pseudonymous literature of Great Britain|publisher=William Patterson|date=1882|pages=p75|url=http://books.google.com/books?id=igsIAAAAQAAJ&pg=PA75&dq=%22Ambrose+Serle%22+%22Americans+Against+Liberty%22&lr=lang_en&as_brr=3&ei=pqZ7SNbBJ47iiwGnwqmFDA] It also criticizes the American colonists as enemies of the British public and opponents of the freedoms provided by Great Britain. He believed that the colonists' complaints against King George III were unimportant and were not a strong enough reason to revolt against the government. He thought that the colonies harmed England financially, but Britain had little choice but to govern and protect them. He was a strong loyalist and supported England greatly.

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