LAD #4 Revolution Article

Five Things I Learned from the Revolutionary War Article:

1. I found it interesting that certain Founding Fathers and some elite upper class chose to propagate specific images of the American War that would define history in a way most suiting for their needs. 
2. I had never previously considered how great an emphasis was placed on the political events and people in the revolution, as opposed to the actual battles and fighting. The fact becomes very unique when compared to other American wars since, with a much greater emphasis placed on the battles.
3. The beliefs that the American Revolution was less violent than other, more recent American wars is partially due to the non-violent and sterile portrayals of the Revolution in art and the lack of moving statements from Washington and Thomas Paine, among other prominent figures, in regards to the brutal fighting.
4. The American Revolution was actually far more savage than it is generally given credit for, even compared to the enormous death toll of the Civil War. For example, a much greater percentage of POWs perished in POW camps in the REvolution than even in the horrendous camps of the Civil War, and about half of the Continental Army was completely naked and two-thirds lacking in food at times. 
5. Civilians suffered enormously in the American Revolution, and were subjected to diseases, had their towns burned, and were massacred in their homes. Loyalists were persecuted like no other civilian group in the Civil War- ten times more Loyalists were exiled than Confederates, despite a much smaller overall population.