what revolution
is this bait
No, the American revolt against British rule, there are several problems I have with the way it was conducted.
-Thomas Jefferson was the British diplomat for the American people. He sent numerous letters to the British government saying that the people had no complaints to British rule at all while the revolution was happening and he was participating in it.
-The British offered black slaves freedom employment in the army with fair pay in exchange for freedom, the Americans refused to do so as they hated the idea of blacks being free or fighting alongside them, they later repealed this out of desperation.
-America did not have an MP, they disliked being taxed without having appropriate representation in parliament, this is fair criticism, however what people fail to mention is the fact that the only tax they had was the tea tax which was not that much, mind you, while people in England had ridiculous taxation such as the window tax. It was also impossible for an MP to represent the America's as it took 2 weeks to get to there, so an MP would have to travel 2 weeks to get to America, have a vote or resolve local issue's, then travel for 2 weeks back to parliament. It would not work.
-Once again, Thomas Jefferson said that there were no complaints at all.
-"But the British fought them, how did they not know?" Well, as I said, it takes two weeks to get to America, and at the time we were at war with Napoleon, so the soldiers were trying to get help from Britian however the British had already sent messages telling them to fall back to England to help fight Napoleon. Several messages were sent however with the conflict of information from both Thomas Jefferson and several British soldiers the British government didn't know what was going on, they thought that it was simply civil unrest and not a revolution. Honestly one regiment of British Grenadiers would have wiped the revolution, easily.
-Several French regiments helped fight the British during the revoltion, this further confused the British at home which made them think it was the French that were the major problem. Without the French the Americans would not have had enough support to win the war, at all.
-In the British army, at the time, you could buy your rank. This meant that officers were often just snobby rich people and were not that great until properly trained at Sandhurst. Goerge Washington was willing to join as an officer and had the money to do so, however he was such a shit general that the British army refused to take him.