History of the American Revolution 1770s Map

[TheMeagMeap]

snowed in... have no books this is helping me study =)

[ejc45]

I like Spanish Claims:)

[LuvSelena247]

this is weird

[DasKronprinz]

what computer program is this?

[Britty5096]

I'm glad to see someone using youtube for educational purposes! Keep posting!

[dadecountyhustler305]

2: 35 huresho gates hmmmmmm...... I wonder if he's related to Robert Gates...../

[BlitzerUK]

If you watched Neil Fergusons American History, you would know the TRUE trigger point of the American Revolution was the British LOWERING taxes, which prompted the "Rice Kings" / Smugglers to protest.

Also, the British HELD to their agreements with the Indians, forbidding American expansion to the west.

The world would be a better place if Britain had held on to America - giving up the war was one of the dumbest decisions ever taken.

[davery1234]

Exactly right Americans always talk asif we were utterly defeated.The only country to come good after gaining independance is Australia.

[Skleevan]

Yeah but holding onto America would have cost the British alot of money, and many many more men. The british were also fighting a European war at the time, with the Dutch, French, Spanish etc, thus effectively fighting two wars, it just couldnt be done.

[tenchimuyo69]

Since their tax policy was caused by bankruptcy... it just kept getting worse. Refusal to pay taxes, the taxpayers wage war against you, and now you have to somehow find another way to fund that second war.

Even if the British had successfully put the rebellion down quickly... I'm not sure if they'd be financially capable to put down a second one if there were to be one.

[dadecountyhustler305]

There'd be no Britain today if it wasn't for the American revolution.... Britian couldn't defend the Nazi's w/o out American arms, money, and planes.....

and even if they did the soviet union would of ran over the brits......... in the cold war

[BlitzerUK]

You guys are missing my point.

If Britain had had the resources of America (through not allowing independance) Germany would have been crushed in WW1, and the Russian revolution might have been stopped cold.

Nazi Germany would probably never have existed.

The World could have been a much better place with a still powerful British Empire.

[Satanicallyfree]

Germany wouldn't have lost WW1 if there was no America. America turned the war in the allies favor. With Russia backing out in 1917 it was only a matter of time until Germany prevailed, they were winning stunning victory after victory.

[paulinotou]

@Satanicallyfree thats true. there was a big debate whether to join Axis or triple entente. thats because there was a large German population in the US but at the same time we were closer to England because of trade and language. you guys basicly screwed that up no offense. Zimmerman telegram

[dave19941000]

@Satanicallyfree So where the Canadian forces, but you don't seem to recognize that. The US joined in the later part of WW1 and Germany was already at war with England and her colonies, France, Russia, Italy, and Japan (Ironic the last 2 isn't it). Now WW2, that's different, Germany would have won is only ONE of the falowing was not on the allies side: England, The Soviet Union, The United States, and Canada.

[Satanicallyfree]

@dave19941000 The canadian forces were part of the English army.America is entirely to blame for WW2. If not for that Germany wouldn't have been stripped of her strength and ability to defend herself and been forced into a position to where Hitler could rise to power.

[dave19941000]

@Satanicallyfree Part of it or not we still kicked the most ass in both, and we where not afraid to stop because of a few casualties. Also, your right about us being a colony during WW1, but we where recognized as Canadian forces, and before WW2 we gained independents.

[061369317]

@dave19941000 Canada was an independant country since 1867, being part of the Commonwealth doesn't equal being a colony.

Canadian expeditionary forces (CEF) never numbered more than 5 divisions in WW1, further reduced to 4, French had between 90 and 110, British 70 at most (1918) and Germans 200-250.

Canadian involvement in both wars in comparison with other belligerents has been negligible, only worth sparing British lives.

[dave19941000]

@061369317 Vimmy Rige, Normandy, Italy, those where our fight. When we wheren't alone in the fight we where leading it. WE where the ones who went in then the Brits and French failed. You do realize that Belgium and the Neitherlands where basicly liberated by the Canadian forces right? And on Veternisday they accualy remember the fact that WE, not the Joe's, Brits or French liberated them from the German occupation. And about France, what happened with that wall you guess built for 10 years? HA

[tenchimuyo69]

I blame France for that. Or rather Clemenceau. A lot of the demands he had for Germany were not just done out of hatred for what Germany had done in that war, he was also fueling the fire of his hatred for the Franco-Prussian war, which he had the misfortune of witnessing when he was younger.

[061369317]

@tenchimuyo69 When there is something messed up, don't look further, France is to be blamed. Everyone but French is nice and kind.

Germans had rights to annex whoever they wanted (and this include Bavaria or Schleswig-Holstein) but French should satisfy themselves being left as an independant country, once its neighbours have taken from it what they want.

After all, French are pigs, aren't they ?

Germans paid dearly for the two world wars THEY have initiated, and that's justice.

[tenchimuyo69]

Excluding America's army of the war, Germany was still outnumbered even after Russia's withdraw, and its industrial production was wanting in comparison to Britain's.

When you include the other forces supported the UK, such as the ANZAC, Portugual, and Canada, their numbers AND industrial output are unrivaled.

Matters are made worse by the fact that the first engagements between Germans and Americans were... predictable.

Americans through themselves into pointless slaughter on open fields.

[dadecountyhustler305]

The Brits taxed the hell out of the colonists due to the french and Indian war. Simple logic really. Don't beleive EVERYTHING YOU HEAR ON THE INTERNET.....

[coulie27]

@B-UK, interesting point, and maybe true. UK & former colonies control all corners of the earth, save South America (ex-Falkland Isles) and are forces for good. Less colonial strife could mean more progress today. On the other hand, America did well on its own, other colonies took the independence route, and mostly we stayed well in touch -- trade, culture etc. Unity under a crown (w/ some tyranny) is maybe less desirable than self-determination. But impossible to know how history would develop!

[061369317]

@BlitzerUK Face reality, Britain couldn't have hold on its American colonies more than it could hold on India 150 years or so later.

You got your ass butts kicked, live with it and be happy to remain the european medium power your country has become.

BTW, there are indian reservations in Canada, so stop pretending that you British bitches hold to any agreements with Indians...

We owned you with French help, and we still own you.