5 Things I learned:
- John Adams, who played a major part in the revolution had doubts that the war would have a distorted history and he would be forgotten.
- Parson Weems wrote a biography about George Washington which was so skewed it made Washington seem like Moses, leading his people out of captivity.
- The Continental Army was very brutal. So many British prisoners were being killed that the commander had to issue an order “to retrain the disorderly manner of slaughtering…the prisoners”.
- The British were equally was brutal. A continental soldier had a 10% chance of dying in any battle but had only a 50-50 chance of surviving if taken as a prisoner.
- Six times as many people died in the civil war as in the revolutionary war, causing the severity of the war to be under minded.
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