The merchants had a very bad time too, between price controls that caused them to lose money (or their head), and eventually, total war against the rest of Euro

The merchants had a very bad time too, between price controls that caused them to lose money (or their head), and eventually, total war against the rest of Europe, which made it every able man’s duty to go to war. The American revolution was one of the very few that worked out the way people intended it to.