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2024-02-26 -Signs, Portents, and the Weather-

Comes Thermidor-Remembering the End of the Jacobins

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Posted by NoMoreBS 2024-02-26 12:15|| || Front Page|| [38 views ] Top
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#1 There was a major difference between the American War of Independence and the French Revolution. The Americans sought the state of benign neglect that the crown had practiced before the Seven Years War/French and Indian War. They made a point of Natural Rights of Englishmen which was something established in the Anglo law and culture of the times.
Even though the colonies had provided funding pretty much based upon their limited economies and had provided military service, the crown has seeking more taxes to pay for the last war. We know where that ultimately lead to.
The crisis in France, strangely enough, also was exasperated by the French financing the efforts of the American colonists in their independence and their war with England.
While the Americans sought a return to the social order they had enjoyed prior to the active intervention of London, the French revolutionaries were seeking to displace/replace the existing order.

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