Civil War Doomsday Clock

[Okeefenokee]

Read

a

book.

[BjornP]

Uhmm.... SF, when they say things like, "the US fought Germany and Japan during WW2", do you also interpret that to mean: "every single American fought every single German and every single Japanese"?

[The Conservative]

If the American Revolution were only fought by a “small minority”, they would have been hanged as traitors immediately.

There was general momentum in that direction before the first rebels started to agitate. Momentum built, and a movement started.

I won’t be one of the few starting it, but I’ll certainly help finish it, if it fits my ideals.

You want to start it, be my guest. But you won’t. This is just virtue larping.

You're such an insufferable faggot.

It was a small minority. Read a fucking book.

So, the majority of colonists wanted to remain in the British Empire, but a small minority agitated for, fought, and won the Revolutionary War, despite the larger will of the people being against it.

Wow.

Dig deeper... you may hit China.

And this is why we should be teaching US history, so people like you don't get into power.

Population back then was about 3 Million. (estimated)

15 and 20% were Crown Loyalists. 300K to 400K.

80K were militia and continental army.
55K were privateers

1 in 20 died during the revolutionary war.

45% of the colonies supported the continental army.

For England, it was:

56K English Soldiers.
30K German mercenaries.

[SuburbanFarmer]

You're such an insufferable faggot.

It was a small minority. Read a fucking book.

So, the majority of colonists wanted to remain in the British Empire, but a small minority agitated for, fought, and won the Revolutionary War, despite the larger will of the people being against it.

Wow.

Dig deeper... you may hit China.

And this is why we should be teaching US history, so people like you don't get into power.

Population back then was about 3 Million. (estimated)

15 and 20% were Crown Loyalists. 300K to 400K.

80K were militia and continental army.
55K were privateers

1 in 20 died during the revolutionary war.

45% of the colonies supported the continental army.

For England, it was:

56K English Soldiers.
30K German mercenaries.

400k loyalists vs 2.6m revolutionaries.

Small minority.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Uhmm.... SF, when they say things like, "the US fought Germany and Japan during WW2", do you also interpret that to mean: "every single American fought every single German and every single Japanese"?

No?

But the vast majority of Americans supported the war.

What exactly does that have to do with the beginnings of a popular movement?

[The Conservative]

So, the majority of colonists wanted to remain in the British Empire, but a small minority agitated for, fought, and won the Revolutionary War, despite the larger will of the people being against it.

Wow.

Dig deeper... you may hit China.

And this is why we should be teaching US history, so people like you don't get into power.

Population back then was about 3 Million. (estimated)

15 and 20% were Crown Loyalists. 300K to 400K.

80K were militia and continental army.
55K were privateers

1 in 20 died during the revolutionary war.

45% of the colonies supported the continental army.

For England, it was:

56K English Soldiers.
30K German mercenaries.

400k loyalists vs 2.6m revolutionaries.

Small minority.

It’s official, you can’t fucking read.

[Okeefenokee]

It must not have occurred to grumps that the nation he lives in only exists because a small minority of men had the balls to stand up to the strongest empire the world had ever seen, and won.

80,000 troops / 2.5 million colonists = 3.2%

[SuburbanFarmer]

It must not have occurred to grumps that the nation he lives in only exists because a small minority of men had the balls to stand up to the strongest empire the world had ever seen, and won.

80,000 troops / 2.5 million colonists = 3.2%

Ah, now we’re back to troop counts.

What a long and miserable trail this thread has become.

[Okeefenokee]

Read my quote you fucking melon head.

[SuburbanFarmer]

Read my quote you fucking melon head.

Do you actually believe that armies act and support themselves alone? Regardless of the support from the population?

Do you think they’d have survived fighting the other colonists AND the British?