Revolution Article

Rethinking the Revolution: 5 Things Learned.

1. It is estimated that 30,000 out of 2.5 million Americans died fighting during the Revolution and that number compared to today would be 3 million out of the 300 million currently living in the United States.

2. More than 620,000 people were killed in the American Civil War combined on both sides, all Americans.

3. The increase in technology did not necessarily make warfare easier, it mostly made warfare more deadly and cause a huge increase to the number of deaths because newer marchine guns that were six times more precise than in Revolutionary times and more powerful cannons were used during the Civil War.

4. According to our nation's first President, George Washington (before he served in office) the events and conditions of the Revolutionary War were "every possible suffering and discouragement" and according to many, this was no exaggeration.

5. During a seige on Savannah Georgia, many citizens' homes were broken into and the civilians in them killed and injured by British soldiers, people going about their everyday lives were killed by the British in 1779.