What did the british think that would divide the colonies and shatter their morale ?

hey planned to invade upper New York by way of Lake Champlain and to proceed down the Hudson River to New York City.

Explanation:

the punishment for breaking the law would depend on the conditions or the seriousness of the law being broken, if he or she breaks the law while doing some great discovery or invention then it would classify as a scientific fraud. there are other words to describe the crime but scientific fraud would be the harshest one.