"The American Revolution Was Just One Battlefront in" Topic

…a Huge World War.

"When Americans think of world wars, they picture 20th-century scenes—the blood-drenched trenches at the Battle of the Somme where a million men were injured or killed in 1916, the German blitz that rained death down on London night after night during the autumn of 1940, or the ugly mushroom cloud rising like a behemoth above Hiroshima in August 1945.

A new exhibition at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C., invites Americans to recognize another world war—one that has been traditionally envisioned as a quaint and simple confrontation between a ragtag army of rebellious colonists and a king's mighty military force of red-coated Brits. "The American Revolution: A World War" demonstrates with new scholarship how the 18th-century fight for independence fit into a larger, international conflict that involved Great Britain, France, Spain, the Dutch Republic, Jamaica, Gibraltar and even India. "If it had not become that broader conflict, the outcome might very well have been different," says David K. Allison, project director, curator of the show and co-author of a new forthcoming book on the subject. "As the war became bigger and involved other allies for American and other conflicts around the world, that led Britain to make the kind of strategic decisions it did, to ultimately grant the colonies independence and use their military resources elsewhere in the world."…"
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"A king's mighty military force of red-coated Brits" – did she leave anything out?

('A Huge World War' Bigly Huge)

It wasn't a world conflict until the French came in in 1778, followed by the Spanish and the Dutch.

And is this supposed to be NEWS? News flash! wheel discovered!

Otoh, given the sorry sad state of history education in American schools, perhaps it is now the case that this WILL be a surprise to most?

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