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Do not forget that the main difference between the two groups of revolutionaries was that the Indian insurgents were native peoples to their country, whereas Am
by richardhod 8y ago
Do not forget that the main difference between the two groups of revolutionaries was that the Indian insurgents were native peoples to their country, whereas American colonists were Europeans who had travelled to North America to take over from the actual American native peoples. The American dispute was largely about taxation, and the ability of New England merchants to trade with Bengal, and the overreaching control of tbe East India Company in its main goal of supplying England. These are not indigenous peoples looking to throw off tbe yoke of racist imperial power, but colonists themselves, irked by not being treated commercially as well as those back home in Europe.
This is imho a fine and nuanced article and I have learned lots I didn't know about this era.