To the Brits here: What do they teach you at school about the American Revolution? If anything at all that is.
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Pecks bad boy
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I grew up in a British school and only during my last 2 years of High school did I come out to the US. In the British school I grew up in, we were taught that the American revolution happened after the Americans grew disgruntled at the taxes levied by the King and decided to rebel. We learnt what the Boston Tea Party was and the French decided to help the Americans repel the British only to have the Americans turn on the French after the British had been defeated. Not the most unbiased of educations I grant you, but at least we covered the main points.
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I did history for at least 5 years, and in those years not once did we cover the American Revolution. Mostly we learned about European history, and usually more recent history than that (e.g. World Wars)
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nope, all we learned about is black slavery and after school getting a beating because they thought you had something to do with it. my school was mainly black.
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It is a long time since I was at school (in England), but I remember being taught that the American Revolution came about because the inhabitants of what became the USA had no representation in the British Parliamentary process, yet were expected to pay taxes to support it. Their claim was that there should be "no taxation without representation". At the time, my British ancestors were engaged in a systematic plundering of the world's natural resources and point-blank refused to countenance the settlers demands, thereby leaving the colonists with no real options other than continue to pay taxes that were patently unfair or to seek independence.
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i was only at school for a few months in NYC when four all i remember is the hat with three corners! so not a lot are there films relevant to learn about it i enjoyed ned kelly and the patriot
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Not much really - it was not covered when I did history in school - there is only so much time on the curriculum, and so much british history to fit in
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well.....this is fun as well....if it wasn't for Winston Churchill smoking 13 cigars a day, all of us american's would be speaking German today.......
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nothing-they leave it up to you americans to tell us all about it, so go on im all ears lol
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Apart from the no taxation without representation nonsense, we were taught very little. Even when I took American History it was fairly mainstream stuff from the US point of view. It wasn't later when I took up the subject as a hobby that the truth comes out. Uprising driven by land-hungry Viginia slave-owning aristocray, to gain protected indian lands. The manipulation of the Bostonian North and Southender gangs for the purposes of causing unrest. Propoganda and lies of the type spread by Paul Revere, murder, terrorism and intimidation all used to stir up the masses. What we were never taught was that really, the revolution was really a civil war and many of the British regiments were made up of locally raised, loyalist troops.
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