How is the American Revolution taught in the UK?

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we became the largest empire ever and brought the world capitalism.

Thanks for nothing.

Britain was far from the largest empire ever. British empire only seemed big to the British because British minds were small and memories short.

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What you don't seem to appreciate is that the American colonists were amoung the least repressed or taxed members of the empire for the period had an unusually large amount of clout.

What we appreciated was you, the British, were stupid enough to defeat the French in 1756 for us, so having irretrieveable given to us the entirety of the only really important thing that we really needed you for, we have no more need for you.

The lesson - generosity, even if given purely out of what is perceived to be self-interest, can nonetheless be its own punishment.

A government should never meet its citizen's most charished aspirations, for its most cherished aspiration always have something to do with doing away with the government.

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Hey, it was your idiot nation's fault to not make Benjamin Franklin a token representative of parliament or appoint a representative.

You could've easily stonewalled their demands while giving them the representation they asked for. It would've at least won you more support and perhaps even stagnated the desire to break away.

Inept management of colonies is usually a prime factor in them breaking away.

The only major ineptness of the British was to permanently make the colonies secure from a French land invasion from Quebec.

If the British didn't kick the French out, the colonists would have been glad to have the previlege of having British bayonets shoved up their asses in return for keeping the French bayonets north in Canada.

We are grasping, greedy, ungrateful, self-important bastards even by the lofty stardards of the British.