Professor John McCurdy
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Almost every colony will have a
troops marching through it.
So it was a great deal of participation.
It was a great deal of pain felt across the board.
Historians have looked at this and said in terms of participation and death rates relative to the population in the colonies at the time, this is equivalent to what the United States suffers in the Civil War, which is our bloodiest conflict, or maybe even what the U.S.
suffers in World War II.
So it touches everyone's life in one way or another.
Okay.
Well, that's never true, right?
People never behave themselves.
I mean, we're talking about soldiers.
So on both sides, whether we're talking about the Continental or American Army or the British Army, these are going to be mostly young, single men.
Most come from humble backgrounds.
They don't bring a lot of money with them.
They have little education or family connections.
And, you know, being away from home is an opportunity to –
get into trouble.
And we know this is true, again, on both sides.
And it's pretty common in most wars.
I mean, one of the issues that soldiers run into, again, on both sides is going to be boredom.
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