Contrary to some modern, sanitized versions of the history of the American Revolution, the real Revolutionary War in the United States was a thoroughly violent affair. Proportionally, the war displaced a larger number of people than even the French Revolution, and more Americans died in that war than in any other American war. (The overall numbers are small because the population of North America was very small at the time.)
Moreover, the conflict was not a simple matter of throwing out British interlopers who wouldn’t leave the residents of the American colonies alone. About a third of the politically active American population at the time supported the British Empire against the American secessionist “Patriots.” These wee the so-called “loyalists” and their presence meant that, at times, the American Revolution took on the characteristics of a civil war as colonists fought each other over who would control local political institutions.
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