Scottish independence: what history tells us about the outcome of the referendum

Their bravery is well known and has been demonstrated time and again, dating back to the aid rendered by General Bernardo de Galvez during the American Revolution”. They are also unaware that long before any formal declaration of war, General Galvez sent gunpowder, rifles, bullets, blankets, medicine and other supplies to the armies of General George Washington and General George Rogers Clark.

Once Spain entered the war against Great Britain in , this dashing young officer raised an army in New Orleans and drove the British out of the Gulf of Mexico.

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Print this page Introduction The War of Independence plays such an important part in American popular ideology that references to it are especially prone to exaggeration and oversimplification. And two uncomfortable truths about it – the fact that it was a civil war perhaps , loyalists fled abroad at its end , and that it was also a world war the Americans could scarcely have won without French help – are often forgotten.

The War of Independence plays such an important part in American popular ideology Here, however, I have done my best to describe this long and complex war in terms that people will find readily comprehensible, but that avoid some of the Hollywood-style simplifications and inaccuracies that have gained so much currency over the years. And although as I write this piece, the second Gulf War has only recently ended, and although the Vietnam analogy comes to mind often, I have deliberately avoided reflecting too much on recent American politics.

In one sense it was always a war between cousins It involved several countries, with France and Britain on opposing sides, and North America was one of its many theatres of operations. It was ended by the Treaty of Paris, by which the French ceded territory to Britain in North America and elsewhere. In addition to this success, James Wolfe’s victory at Quebec had helped secure Canada for the British Crown, and the 13 British colonies further south seemed safe from any threat that might once have been posed by the French and their Native American allies.

Britain and her American colonies at this time seemed very close, both culturally and politically – and it is remarkable how this rosy picture changed so quickly.