Revolution Article

1. The population taken in the war was astounding to me. I never realized that the colonies only held 2.5 million people, 30,000 of which were killed in the war.
2. I realized that the "battles" at Lexington ton and Concord were bad, but i really never thought about what the British regulars were doing on the way there. i surely never thought that rape and pillaging was going on.
3. I realized that many times the Continental troops were without clothing, such as shoes, and without food. I never realized however that many soldiers were reduced to eating clothes and shoes, and that many were 2/3 naked during different parts of the war.
4. I knew loyalists were despised, but considering they made up 5% of the population i never thought that these were in fact exiled, over 100,000.
5. Thinking about prisoners in the Revolutionary war really never came up in any previous social studies class, but to realized that 47% of all prisoners taken by the British died is amazing. This wasn't even rivaled in the Civil war where at total of 27% died and that was including both sides.