Hoock is, however, right to document the harrowing violence, often opportunistic and sadistic, that was “fundamental” to how both sides experienced “America’s founding moment.” The war caused “proportionately more” deaths — from battle, captivity and disease — than any war other than that of 1861-1865. The perhaps 37,000 deaths were about five times more per capita than America lost in World War II. Sixty thousand loyalists became refugees. “The dislocated proportion of the American population exceeded that of the French in their revolution,” Alan Taylor tells us in “American Revolutions: A Continental History.” The economic decline “lasted for 15 years in a crisis unmatched until the Great Depression.”
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Yeah George, we get it. The riff-raff should not revolt nor be revolted by your pathetic crowd. Will, and his cronies, act as if their paymasters shit rose petals and olfactory/anal intercourse with them is the be-all end-all of their existence, would all be Tories.
#1: Vicomte13 To: Anthem (#0)
Surely Nat Turner was also justified, then.
Vicomte13 posted on 2017-07-05 12:57:48 Reply Private Reply
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Anthem posted on 2017-07-05 13:22:13 Reply Private Reply
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How about the Confederates?
Vicomte13 posted on 2017-07-05 13:27:46 Reply Private Reply
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Anthem posted on 2017-07-05 13:46:43 Reply Private Reply
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So did Lincoln and the bulk of the Union government, which is why Lee wasn't tried for anything substantial, why Grant let him walk away from Appomattox with his personal arms, etc.
Vicomte13 posted on 2017-07-05 19:36:35 Reply Private Reply