American Reacts How Do They Teach the American Revolution in Britain?

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Hi everyone! I'm an American from the Northeast (New England). I want to create a watering hole for people who want to discuss, learn and teach about history through YouTube videos which you guys recommend to me through the comment section or over on Discord. Let's be respectful but, just as importantly, not be afraid to question any and everything about historical records in order to give us the most accurate representation of the history of our species and of our planet!

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[johngodsall]

😂I have seen the comment made elsewhere., but to the USA this was the founding moment for the nation, for the British it was a Tuesday.

[Brookspirit]

I notice with Americans they ignore all the help they got from the French, Spanish, and Dutch, they always say it was a few farmers that beat the British, completely untrue, but it makes them feel better I guess.

[dominadors]

British History Teacher here.
The American Revolution received a brief mention in ONE of my lessons this year. Think about how many uprisings and revolutions against the British happened since!
I have to teach 1000 years of History in 3 years 😂

[malpa]

I thought it was the British fighting the British?

[LemonChick]

I'm British and went to my brother's wedding in the USA.
My sister-in-law's brother came up to me after the ceremony, never met him before, and said "didn't we fight a war against you". I genuinely had no idea what he was talking about and my mind went to WW2 but that did not make sense because once the USA joined the war they were our allies. I was genuinely confused.
Anyway, I think that is a brilliant example of the way Americans and Brits see the USA's independence. For an American, the first thing to say to a random English person, but for the English person, no idea what on earth they are talking about.

[PatrickF.Fitzsimmons]

I was once asked why I, an Englishman, didn't celebrate Independance day, as this Amercian thought we did. I then had to explain to him that it was a traitorous act to the crown.

[davidrenton]

i've come to a conclusion the US revolution is taught badly, in the US. The amount of discussions i've had with Americans who don't understand the causes, the powers behind it is maddening

[Cor.Blimey]

Trying to remember what they taught us in school 35 years ago.
I honestly can't remember them ever teaching us anything about US history.
It was all Romans, 1066, Tudors, Industrial revolution and ww1 & 2.

[RobG]

18.04 min to say in the UK we don't generally give a crap about the American Revolution, any more than American could give a crap about, well anything that happens outside of the USA.

[pootlesnoot]

I was at a works drinks event and a new starter from America came over to chat and was really angry about how none of the Brits he'd met so far gave a crap about the American War of Independence being a significant point in history for us. I tried to explain we had a lot of other history to take in and a country leaving the empire wasn't necessarily novel. This made him even more upset so I did the most British thing I could think of and bought him a pint.

[princesspeach]

I don't think most Americans appreciate there was much more history before the 1700s. The volume of American history is the equivalent to a single star in the night sky compared to everything else.

[irene]

We were too busy fighting the French to bother with America at the time and, by the way, it was mostly British settlers fighting the British in your war of independence. "Americans" at that time didn't exist, just colonials.
I was taught about your war of independence in school, although more emphasis was on India, before, during, and after the Raj than on America.

[ianbrooks]

As I understand it - and I could be wrong - the American Brits kept starting wars and creeping west in Spanish, French and Native territory, which the British then had to fight, and it was costing UK land owners and absolute fortune, which lead to raising taxes on things like tea.

The ‘no taxation without representation’ was the public excuse for the war, which was, apparently, actually due to the desire for expansion and not to be shackled by the crown.
The French and Spanish were Britains global rivals at the time, and aided the American effort - the ‘farmers vs high end military’ was a myth.

Back in the UK, the desire to continue the war had little support because America was already barely worth keeping, and the cost of the war tipped the scales and made the territory more or less unwanted.
In the US, the British side had half the losses and were winning, and when those fight on the side of the Americans cut the supply chain to the bulk of the forces, the British saw it as too costly to continue and sued for peace. I have read that the French nearly bankrupted themselves funding the war.

To the Americans, this was obviously a huge deal, but to the British, who were emerging as the dominant power in the world, it was one aspect of a much larger global struggle.

Every school in England is taught about the Battle of Hastings, which is a battle we lost, so its not about the fact Britain lose the Revolutionary War, but Hastings was a giant turning point in British history, and the Revolutionary War wasnt.

[KE]

Watching from Wales 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 UK and we weren’t taught anything about The American Revolution and the War for Independence. No disrespect intended but it just wasn’t that significant to us.. We don’t just NOT hold a grudge but it’s not something we ever think about..

[RosinaEmilyW]

If you were to ask one of us what that date meant now, we’d probably say “Independence from the Tories”.
However, “The day British colonials in America had a strop and the empire was too busy with 3 other wars to care” is the best summary of the 4th of July that I’ve ever heard.

[nigelclinning]

In terms of late 18th century revolutions, the most important to Britain would be the Industrial Revolution.

[snafufubar]

Britain was at war with France, Spain and Holland during the revolution. America was barely mentioned in Parliament at the time. The White house wasn't even built during the revolution it was burnt during the 1812 war. If the full attention and military had been focused on America at the time you'd still have royalty.

[stewedfishproductions]

As mentioned, the US was JUST 1 of over 60 countries who gained independence from Great Britain... We just moved on to handle other issues, while continuing to trade with America anyway! 😊

[anthonymullen]

It's hilarious to hear Americans today talk about how we beat the British or we won our independence or we were fighting off tyranny and yet it has nothing to do with 99% of of Americans, the vast majority of the agrarian colonialists some 3 million we're mostly of British heritage that's almost 70%. I'm obviously excluding the African slaves. We fought off our colonial Masters not understanding that they are the colonists. The vast majority of Europeans arrived in the middle half of the 19th century.

[martynnotman]

They dont. It was never mentioned even in passing. Mine was all Tudors, Romans, Victorian and WW1 &2