Blog #4: Rethinking the Revolution

Both the Civil War and the War of Independence had a significant legacy on American history:
                      
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• 47% of prisoners died in the Revolutionary War while only 27% died in the civil war. 
• The War of Independence also had civil war aspects: the Anglo-Americans fought the British and the Tories fought the Whigs
• 100,000 loyalists exiled after the end of the Revolutionary War and 10,000 confederates exiled after the Civil War
• Both wars fought for freedom from a group: The confederates wanted to secede from the Union and the Americans wanted freedom from the British
• More people died overall from warfare in the Civil War due to the fact that it was more of a modern type of warfare. In the Revolutionary War more people died from the cold Winters that they were unable to survive and diseases.