Should the British have won the Revolutionary War?
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clearly not, or else they would have
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The steps leading up to the war and their consequences are as follows:\n1. Proclomation of 1763 which prohibited the colonist from living west of the Appalachian Mts.-made the colonist mad and many disregarded the proclomation.\n2. Britain raising taxes on the colonist to help defray the costs of the French and Indian War-the colonist protested and refused to pay the taxes.\n3. Boston Massacre in 1770 which was used as American propoganda against the British when in fact it was a large crowd threatening a small group of British soldiers who either fired accidently or out of fear for their lives\n4. Quartering of British soldiers in colonists homes-caused great resentment against the British.\n5. Boston Tea Party in which colonist threw tea into Boston Harbor to protest the monopoly given the British East India Trading Company causing the British to pass the Coercive Acts which severly punished Boston.\n6.  To show support for the Mass. colony all of the colonies except one met at the first Continental Congress and authorized colonies to raise militias, and to boycott British tea.\n7. Lexington and Concord April 1775-British troops attempted to capture Sam Adams and a store of arms and powder at Concord, Mass.  The British were met at Lexington, Mass. on April 19th by a small group of "minute men", resulting in the death of several colonist.\n8. Second Continental Congress-creates an army and names George Washington as commander.\n9. Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
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just guessing, but didn't the British burn the US Capitol and the White House and didn't Dolly Madison save a whole bunchof stuff by hiding itin her carriage and driving away from the invading redcoats?\n\nFt. MacHenry in Baltimore flew the Flag for which the Star Spangled Banner  was written by Key several days later.  The Fort was being shelled by the English Fleet at the time.  \n\nThe English invaded,sacked and burned our capital city.  And several months later Gen. Andrew Jackson slaughtered an entire English Army at the Battle of New Orleans when the War of 1812 had been over by treaty two months prior tothe battle.\n\nGood news traveled slow in 1814.\n\nIn 1814 we took a little trip\nAlong with Col Jackson \nDown the Mighty Mississip\nWe took a little bacon and \nWe took a pot of beans\nAnd we whupped the bloody British\nIn the Town of New Orleans\n\nby Johnny Horton circa 1958 give or take
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~You mean, could we have killed all the slants, taken over their government, their land, their crops, their resources, their economy and their culture and then had them loving us as their saviors?  That's a tough one.  Nah, probably not.  But gee, maybe if we had allowed the elections to take place as they were required by international law and treaty in the early 60's and let Uncle Ho win, as would have been inevitable, we could have declared victory by simply saying we allowed the democratic process to take its course rather than to go to war to be sure that it didn't.    Of course, unjustified invasions cannot be so easily resolved and after doing the same in Iraq and who knows where next, somebody might eventually figure that out.  In the meantime, keep buying GM, Lockheed, General Dynamics, Alcoa and Dow Chemical.  America's quest for international peace, harmony, justice and democracy will keep the armanent industry booming for generations to come.
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after america beat england in the revolution, britian still had troops in america so the war was to have full rights to their land and get rid of the last of britians influence.
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USA wouldn't exist had it not been for the help from France to fight against the British. Before you slam France you should return the Statue of Liberty back to the French, because they are the ones that made it and gave it to USA.
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if the "undefeatable" armada hadn't been defeated, the english would never have had enough control over the seas to have traveled so freely to colonize the americas. the spanish would have gotten there first and claimed those areas for their own.
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The American Revolution was long, slow and hard, for both\nsides.  But now we have freedoms, that were not imagined\n4 or 5 hundred years ago.  50 or 100 years from now the\nIraqis will look back on this period with great gratitude.  And so\nwill the rest of the world.\nI Corinthians 13;8a, Love never fails!!!
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Wow, something that Rob Roy isn't an expert on.  You are just about as dumb as string.  I guess the schools in Scotland must not cover what we call "The War of 1812,"  I don't know what the English call it.  I assume in Scotland they call it "The war in the place that we were sent to do England's bidding (again) in 1812-1814."  Your English masters did manage to burn our capitol down, but we still b1tch slapped you.  \n\nWhy do you love Belgians so much?  Why did you edit that entry?  I was going to snidely quote your derisive comment about learning history back to you.
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They weren't - that's the reason they had the Boston Tea Party, with the slogan, "no taxation without representation".  The British were taxing everything (including tea) but the American colonies had no say in how much the tax would be or what it would be used for.
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The Revolutionary War started in 1765 and ended in 1777.
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Because in order to "win" the war, so many people died, and so much was destroyed. The revolutionary war especially, since so many people were fighting and killing those they loved.
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i'm not quite sure what you mean, but america had the revolutionary war to break away from england. because england was basicaly trying to control them and make them pay so many different taxes that they hardly had enough money left for them selfes. also there was a law passed by england that said that they cant settle west of the applaction mouintains. and they had gained alot of land there by defeating the french in a war years before.
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I think there is a lot of historical revisionism going on here...well thats assuming that you have any actual knowledge of what you are talking about. Certainly your knowledge of British history is lamentable. Are you suggesting that the American Revolution has been the only 'pure' revolution in world history? I don't understand the reference to communism. The doctrine of Communism was a 19th century one, which really didn't get into full swing until the Russian Revolution of 1917. What about the Glorious Revolution of of 1688 when Britain kicked out King James II and the barons and nobles installed William of Orange and his wife Mary to the British throne? No one died, there were  no battles (at the time at least) and there was a smooth transition of power. Not bad for a country that "always gave in to the king". (oh and as an aside, we had beheaded another King earlier in the same century... but perhaps we were too busy "giving in" to him to notice.) History is never as clear cut as you may want it to be. There was a large Colonial army that fought on the British side against the Revolutionaries that tends to be forgotten about, as it is always the victors that write the history books. It is interesting that many black americans fought in the Colonial army as they saw the British as a better bet for their eventual freedom than Washington et al. Mmmm. I wonder if they saw their so called masters as enlightened revolutionaries, or brutal slave owners who maintained their grip over these poor people by terrorising them with chains, whips and torture. I think we all need to be very careful before holding ourselves up as paragons of virtue.
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We fought bravely and can be proud of our military.The british were in charge and decided on withdrawal.It was the right decision.There is no point in sacraficing more lives on a lost cause.Whitlam did the right thing in veitnam(withdrew our troops)When the americans pull out of iraq so will we. Unless we get a labor government before victory
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~The only way that Germany could have won would have been with the support of the US and by tapping into US industrial might, just as was the case  with Britain and France.  The good thing about sitting on the sidelines until the fight is almost over is that the Johnny-(Sammy)-come-lately gets to pick the winner.  \n\nThus, the occupation of Moscow would have been shared by the US and Germany and the cold war would have been unnecessary.  Britain would have retained some semblance of its present self, but we wouldn't have had to suffer the Lady Di crap. Most likely, Britain would have pulled an Italy and switched sides.   The rest of Europe would be the non-entity it is and was, with US and German troops ever present to keep it that way.  Lech Walesa and Solidarity would never have happened.  The Berlin Wall would not have come down because it would have never been built.\n\nThe trip to the moon  would have happened sooner and much more efficiently.  Synthetic fuels would be the norm rather than the exception.  The Euro would have come into being 5 decades sooner.  The Common Market  would have come into being much sooner, under a different name.  Italy would still by a nice place to visit, but not much else.  The Soviet Union would have been an Anglo-American-German colonial protectorate.  Israel would not exist, Algeria would have gained independence much sooner and Nasser would not have had to, wanted to or needed to nationalize the Suez Canal.  Qaddafi and Idi Amin would have been tending camels rather than running puppet-governments for super powers.  Korea would have been left to the Koreans.\n\nIn exchange for a US alliance, or peace with the US, Germany would have terminated its treaties with Japan.  The Japanese markets and materials would have been replaced and exceeded by the products and profits from the west, with  whom the Germans were much more kindred.  Hiroshima and Nagasaki would still have the distinction of being the only places on earth to have been nuked, but Uncle will have his day.  Chiang may have stayed on the mainland, but, if not, Mao would have been even less significant than he was.  Nam would have been unnecessary.\n\nThe Middle East would have been subjugated and Sadam and the Shah would be meaningless footnotes in history.  We would still have pillaged Middle Eastern oil, but Opec wouldn't have been able to stop us.\n\nThere is a reason that one of the US's strongest allies today is Germany.  Hitler was an anomaly.  The US and Germany are as tight today as they were when Von Steuben trained the Troops at Valley Forge, and Britain and Germany share more history and monarchical families than any other two nations in European history.\n\nHitler would have been talked away from his racial policies, but not too quickly.  The rest of the world was never really too upset with the camps and the death of 6 million Jews and 9 million others who died in them anyways.  Certainly not the US, who had exercised similar policies with Native Americans and who was pondering what could be done to quash the  Afro-Americans, Eastern and Southern Europeans  and Asians who were making foolish noises about equality and justice and  whose backs were no longer needed in the mills,  in the fields, in the factories and on the railroads.\n\nIn short, not much would be different today.  The names and places of history might be different, but your life would be pretty much what it is.\n\nSo why do you ask?
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The patriots pledged their lives, their fortunes, and their sacred honor, in the fight to free the United States from Britain.\n\nIsaac Sears lost his fortune.\nJohn Paul Jones lost "a great part" of his fortune\n\nFive signers of the Declaration of Independence were captured by the British, and were tortured as traitors before they died.\n\nNine died from wounds they received, fighting in the Revolutionary War\n\nCarter Braxton, a wealthy planter and trader from Virginia, lost his ships in the War and had to sell everything, to pay his debts. He died in rags.\n\nThomas McKeam lost everything.\n\nThomas Nelson, Jr. died bankrupt.\n\nFrancis Lewis had his home and properties destroyed.\n\nJohn Hart's fields and gristmill were destroyed. \n\nPhilip Livingston lost several properties to the British occupation of New York and sold off others to support the war effort, and he did not recover them.\n\nOf course, the patriots, in the American Revolution, were not limited to those who signed the Declaration of Independence or who rose to prominence, later. Wherever the British went, there was hardship and destruction.