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He has some, ah, unique takes scattered throughout:

> American forces – well, the French and Spanish forces, along with the sputtering Americans – managed to win the American Revolution in 1783.

Make no mistake, the French forces were key, but to lay the victory at the feet of the Spanish ahead of the Americans throws the whole piece into question.

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With the Spanish getting a mention, it seems odd that the Germans/Hessians don't. They were very nearly as numerous as soldiers from the British Army and were more numerous than Loyalist american troops.

wait till you learn how the same stories are told in different countries. its different everywhere.

...like when you see German museums talking over and over about the "period of migration". First time I saw that it took me a while to understand what they were saying...

"Oh, that's what the Anglosphere calls //the barbarian invasions//".

(...or, I think every country has a statue of its native son who invented the television. Some are people I'd never heard of.)

The naming has nothing to do with Germany but is a common term describing migratory movements that where in part invasions into the Roman Empire, no all of those migrations into Roman territory where violent though. That invasion connotation seems to have carried over into present time. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Migration_Period

By 1780 it was a matter of when and not if. The American people had been so thoroughly brutalized by the British at that point that there was certainly going to be ongoing violence as long as there were British soldiers around to shoot at. So then the British options are genocide or wash their hands of it. And the Bible says you're not supposed to commit genocide against other Christians let alone people who might be British subjects (also you need them alive to work to pay taxes and the population needs to exist as a hedge against French influence) so since that option isn't really on the table the question at that point is at what point do the British wash their hands of it.

Cant treat them like the irish, if the island is to far away..

On Virginia Avenue NW in Washington, DC, there is a statue of one Galvez, who led Spanish forces in the Mississippi Valley area, fighting against the British. But that was a long way from the main theatre of operations.

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