1. To Revolutionarys, The Revolutionary War started as a revolution and became a war. Citizens and Founding Fathers had more democracy and human rights in mind when writing the Declaration of Independence. They only conceded to war when Britain gave them no choice.
2. Focal points of the war include colonial resistance, rather than actual battles. The Boston Tea Party and the Boston Massacre motivated citizens to take part in this war to a greater extent than battles one the war had begun.
3. Because the Revolutionary War was fought at such close range, battle often resolved to hand to hand combat and vicious bayonette charges. Veterans who had fought in Europe claimed that in the Revolution, they had never experienced war at such a close range and severe fire.
4. The violence and death of the Revolutionary War was overshadowed by the death toll of the Civil War. While thousands of men died in the Revolution, 6 times as many died in the Civil War.
5. Loyalists who survived the battles after a continental victory still faced a horrible life as a prisoner. An order had to be issued to stop the killing of loyalist captives. After the march to captivity, many loyalists were executed anyways.
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