5fish
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You know we did not win our independence as much as Britain had bigger priorities than us from 1770 to 1783. They fought wars not only against us but around the with the French, Spain, Dutch and in India. If the British had been detracted by other wars against opponents they feared more we may never had been free from their yoke.
listing them...
First Anglo-Maratha War
(1774–1783)
American Revolutionary War (1775–83)
Anglo-French War (1778–83)
Anglo-Spanish War (1779–83)
4th Anglo-Dutch War (1780–83)
2nd Anglo-Mysore War
(1780–1784)
The British were fighting a global wars something would have to give and lossing the American colonies was what was lost to them. The wars the British fought were not over ideology but over trade and profits. Even , our war with the British in their eyes was about finding and opening new trade routes and profits, not about freedom and republics.
Snip... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...ust-one-battlefront-huge-world-war-180969444/
“The American Revolution: A World War” demonstrates with new scholarship how the 18th-century fight for independence fit into a larger, international conflict that involved Great Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch Republic, Jamaica, Gibraltar and even India. “If it had not become that broader conflict, the outcome might very well have been different,” says David K. Allison, project director, curator of the show and co-author of a new forthcoming book on the subject. “As the war became bigger and involved other allies for American and other conflicts around the world, that led Britain to make the kind of strategic decisions it did, to ultimately grant the colonies independence and use their military resources elsewhere in the world.”
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“We became a sideshow,” says Allison. Both France and Spain, to undermine British power, provided both arms and troops to the rambunctious rebels. The Dutch Republic, too, traded weapons and other goods to the American colonists. Ultimately, after struggling to retain its 13 feisty colonies, British leaders chose to abandon the battlefields of North America and turn their attention to their other colonial outposts, like India.
Snip...https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/american-revolution-was-just-one-battlefront-huge-world-war-180969444/
In a global context, the American Revolution was largely a war about trade and economic influence—not ideology. France and Spain, like Britain, were monarchies with even less fondness for democracy. The Dutch Republic was primarily interested in free trade. The leaders of all three countries wanted to increase their nations’ trade and economic authority, and to accomplish that, they were willing to go to war with their biggest competitor—Great Britain. To the French, Spanish and Dutch governments, this was not a war about liberty: It was all about power and profit. If American colonists won their independence, that would cause harm to British interests and open new trade opportunities in North America and elsewhere for those who allied themselves with the colonists
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The last battle in this global conflict known in the United States as the American Revolution was not fought on the fields of Virginia in 1781: It occurred two years later at Cuddalore, India.
After all fighting ended, Britain negotiated separate peace treaties with the United States, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic in 1783. While Britain maintained its dominant position on the high seas, the treaties gave the American colonies their independence, returned French prestige lost in the Seven Years War, guaranteed Spain’s holdings in the Americas as well as its trade routes, and left the Dutch Republic in a worse position in both trade and world power
I am pointing we Americans are full of ourselves about our revolution. If was not for the greed of other nations, we would most likely not be the nation we are today. Our independence from Britain was just the British taking a loss for greater profits over there...
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listing them...
First Anglo-Maratha War
(1774–1783)
American Revolutionary War (1775–83)
Anglo-French War (1778–83)
Anglo-Spanish War (1779–83)
4th Anglo-Dutch War (1780–83)
2nd Anglo-Mysore War
(1780–1784)
The British were fighting a global wars something would have to give and lossing the American colonies was what was lost to them. The wars the British fought were not over ideology but over trade and profits. Even , our war with the British in their eyes was about finding and opening new trade routes and profits, not about freedom and republics.
Snip... https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smit...ust-one-battlefront-huge-world-war-180969444/
“The American Revolution: A World War” demonstrates with new scholarship how the 18th-century fight for independence fit into a larger, international conflict that involved Great Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch Republic, Jamaica, Gibraltar and even India. “If it had not become that broader conflict, the outcome might very well have been different,” says David K. Allison, project director, curator of the show and co-author of a new forthcoming book on the subject. “As the war became bigger and involved other allies for American and other conflicts around the world, that led Britain to make the kind of strategic decisions it did, to ultimately grant the colonies independence and use their military resources elsewhere in the world.”
Snip...
“We became a sideshow,” says Allison. Both France and Spain, to undermine British power, provided both arms and troops to the rambunctious rebels. The Dutch Republic, too, traded weapons and other goods to the American colonists. Ultimately, after struggling to retain its 13 feisty colonies, British leaders chose to abandon the battlefields of North America and turn their attention to their other colonial outposts, like India.
Snip...https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/american-revolution-was-just-one-battlefront-huge-world-war-180969444/
In a global context, the American Revolution was largely a war about trade and economic influence—not ideology. France and Spain, like Britain, were monarchies with even less fondness for democracy. The Dutch Republic was primarily interested in free trade. The leaders of all three countries wanted to increase their nations’ trade and economic authority, and to accomplish that, they were willing to go to war with their biggest competitor—Great Britain. To the French, Spanish and Dutch governments, this was not a war about liberty: It was all about power and profit. If American colonists won their independence, that would cause harm to British interests and open new trade opportunities in North America and elsewhere for those who allied themselves with the colonists
Snip...
The last battle in this global conflict known in the United States as the American Revolution was not fought on the fields of Virginia in 1781: It occurred two years later at Cuddalore, India.
After all fighting ended, Britain negotiated separate peace treaties with the United States, France, Spain and the Dutch Republic in 1783. While Britain maintained its dominant position on the high seas, the treaties gave the American colonies their independence, returned French prestige lost in the Seven Years War, guaranteed Spain’s holdings in the Americas as well as its trade routes, and left the Dutch Republic in a worse position in both trade and world power
I am pointing we Americans are full of ourselves about our revolution. If was not for the greed of other nations, we would most likely not be the nation we are today. Our independence from Britain was just the British taking a loss for greater profits over there...
LINK: