Ahh yes the merchant revolution of the US, in which rich white men got mad about paying taxes and the whispers of slave abolition in England and revolted.
It wasn’t the people’s war, it was the merchants war.
Had nothing to do with suspending the right to trial by jury, forced deportations, suspending peaceful assembly, demanding quartering troops, cutting off trade routes…
Ahh yes the merchant revolution of the US, in which rich white men got mad about paying taxes and the whispers of slave abolition in England and revolted.
It wasn’t the people’s war, it was the merchants war.
Similar thing with the French revolution, it’s the bourgeoisie who found nobility privileges unfair that led most of it.
Had nothing to do with suspending the right to trial by jury, forced deportations, suspending peaceful assembly, demanding quartering troops, cutting off trade routes…