The Revolutionary War
One of the reasons the British raise the taxes on colonist, was to regain the money that Great Britain had lost during the Seven Years War. They had to pay all their debts and one way to do it is through taxing things the colonist use the most. After the raise of taxing and the huge event of called the Boston Massacre a Local Militia soon turned into the Continental Army of the Revolutionary War.
numbers of people who fought in the war
About 250,000 Americans fought in the Revolutionary War and at least 25,000 Loyalists on American soil fought on the
British side and thousands had served in the Royal Navy. the British Army was comprised of
about 36,000 men. During the events of the war, Great Britain had signed treaties
the German, who supplied the British armies with more than 30,000 soldiers. In 1779, the number of British and German troops stationed
in North America grew to over 60,000. There are about 10,000 Loyalist Americans
included in this figure who are under arms for the British.There was at least 5,000 black soldiers who fought for the
Revolutionary cause and over 20,000 black soldiers who fought for the British
side. There were 13,000 warriors who fought for the British side
whereas the largest group is the Iroquois Confederacy, which is supplied with
1,500 men.
Cost of the war
The British spent about £80 million and ended with a
national debt of £250 million, which it easily financed at about £9.5 million a
year in interest. The French spent 1.3 billion livres (about £56 million).
Their total national debt was £187 million.The United States spent $37 million at the national level
plus $114 million by the states.
the ones who died
An estimated 25,000 American Revolutionaries died during
active military service. About 8,000 of these deaths were in battle; the other
17,000 deaths were from disease, including about 8,000 – 12,000 who died while
prisoners of war, most in rotting prison ships in New York. The number of
Revolutionaries seriously wounded or disabled by the war has been estimated
from 8,500 to 25,000. The total American military casualty figure was therefore
as high as 50,000. About 171,000 seamen served for the British during the war;
about 25 to 50 percent of them had been pressed into service. About 1,240 were
killed in battle, while 18,500 died from disease. About 42,000 British sailors
deserted during the war. Approximately 1,200 Germans were killed in action and 6,354
died from illness or accident. About 16,000 of the remaining German troops
returned home, but roughly 5,500 remained in the United States after the war
for various reasons, many eventually becoming American citizens.