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 Posted: Mon May 21, 2007 7:53 pm
I have spent my life obsessing over the American revolution (Take a look at my profile) and I would like to know more peoples opinions on that war.
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Posted: Tue Jun 19, 2007 4:02 am
A regrettable state of affairs, we'd all have been better off without it. Unfortunately, communication was not sufficient to allow a diplomatic solution.
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Posted: Tue Jun 26, 2007 3:04 pm
Invictus_88 A regrettable state of affairs, we'd all have been better off without it. Unfortunately, communication was not sufficient to allow a diplomatic solution.
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Posted: Sun Aug 12, 2007 7:02 am
I wasn't alive, therefore I don't really have any views on it.
Now if I went through it, then maybe I'd be able to pass judgement on it.
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Posted: Wed Oct 03, 2007 9:46 am
You say you would like to know more, Mendaf, yet your words are very bitter and do not seem to welcome discussion of the matter. Do you wish to rant against the Rev. War or to discuss it? If you do wish to discuss it, please do not throw insults and personal opinions about. Thank you.
Personally I am in an interesting position. I am an Anglophile born and bred in the U.S. This means that I would love to live under the British flag, but have an American view of the Rev. War. The toss up is that for our modern times the matter isn't worth generating fresh hostility over.
As far as the war itself, whatever you may think of individuals involved, there were good and passionate reasons for the revolt. Perhaps as Invictus said better communication could have worked things out without fighting. I think that would have been grand. As it was, there was a definite impasse and a strong desire for a unique nation. Which is understandable considering a good number of those who came to the colonies did so to escape English control.
The U.S. seems to have done alright for itself as an independent nation, so it would appear that the colonists were not foolish in believing they could survive without England. Over the years, we have become two very different peoples and it now seems logical that we would be two different countries. Such probably would have happened at a later date if the Rev. War had not occurred, albeit hopefully without loss of life. Sadly, communication and stubborn passions on both sides of the war meant hostilities were nigh inevitable. Thus the war and thus our current times.
That being said, Long Live the Queen!
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