How do the history books in England cover the American Revolution?
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I was thinking today about how Nations see wars and it made me wonder how the English history books describe the American Revolution. Is it described the same or do they have a different version of how it all went down?
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You mean that time when those ungrateful yanks who we spent a fortune fighting a war against the French and Indians for and wanted to recoup some of our costs with a handful of small taxes on luxury goods like stamps and tea decided to up an revolt instead? Great question!
@gorillapaws Hey the Olive Branch Petition was a lovely letter. Don’t get why they got so upset after that. LOL, But truly, I was thinking about how everyone sees wars through the eyes of the people at the time, but is it truly accurate? There will be things disputed but that are based on facts. Battles for instance. But motivations and reasons are a different animal.
I was discussing with a Trumper today who blames what is happening in Ukraine on Biden. I believe no president, even Trump would be responsible for a War Putin always wanted. This person believes Trump would’ve stopped it. No. Because this didn’t come about overnight. This was coming since Crimea was taken.
My point is that in our future history there will be one set in the history books that will blame the US and others that will blame Ukraine and others that will blame Russia. No one will dispute how the war began and how it all ends. But why it began will be something historians will have different opinions on.
So it got me wondering about our own wars. Everyone has their side of the story and how they see it and I never thought about if Englands version is different from ours.
It’s not the writers of text book’s job to insert opinions. They just write the facts.
^^^^ But @Dutchess_III not even “the facts” are agreed up on, and opinion of relevance affects every decision of what to put in a history book.
@gorillapaws refers to the “French and Indian War” which is a peculiarly American view of what was the Seven Years’ War, a global conflict involving most of the major European powers and many smaller European states, as well as nations in Asia and the Americas,
@Dutchess_III Even omissions can change history and how wars or campaigns are perceived by the reader. How many people through history were considered heroes of the day and now you find out they were douchebags.
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