interesting things I learned about the American revolution from Durant's summary of the war from Britain's perspective last night
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3. the american alliance with France is well known, and Spain's declaration of war against England as well however, I had /not/ known that Denmark, Sweden, and Russia adopted a hostile neutrality against England when the royal navy started aggressively searching ships
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4. the population of Britain was something like 6M at that point; the American colonies, 1M not as lopsided a conflict as i had thought in this sense can you imagine if Britain had retained the colonies? we would have swallowed her whole
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5. didn't catch the details but at one point in the run-up to the war South Carolina wanted to limit slave imports and Britain overruled them because it was far too lucrative to give up eat shit
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re: (1), here's a speech from Pitt--worth reading to get a sense of the anti-war faction's disposition https://www.bartleby.com/268/3/24.html
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Burke's speech is also excellent his section on the American temperament and especially religious disposition relative to England is extremely interesting and worth weighing in These Timeshttps://en.m.wikisource.org/wiki/Burke%27s_Speech_on_Conciliation_with_America/Speech …
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possible correction on population huuuhhttps://twitter.com/thehorsepundit/status/1329807596425981955?s=19 …
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Edmund Burke’s speech in favor of colonial independence is great and worth a read.
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I think it was Barbara Tuchman’s “The First Salute” where she suggested George III’s intransigence on the colonies was driven by the fact that he was unable to choose his own wife. Exercising power where he could. (Seems crazy to me, but hey.)
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