Has there ever been a more unlikely war than the American Revolution?
Why did those 13 colonies, with nothing resembling a unified and trained army, and with no navy to speak of, believe they could defeat the most powerful nation on the planet?
And why was Britain, no matter how powerful, confident it could prevail despite these burdens:
TTC - Ideas in Western Culture - the Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment OPP course (1995) taught by Ori Z. Soltes, Georgetown University, Ph.D., Union Institute and University The seventeenth and eighteenth century were a time of a dramatic and accelerating change in European politics, economy, and culture.Secularization constituted, perhaps, the dominant trend of the age, despite the persistence into the seventeenth century the superstitions such as fear of witchcraft and of efforts of clerics and princes to impose uniform belief.
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TTC - American Revolution
