Blog #4 - Revolution Article

After reading "Rethinking the Revolution" by John Ferling, these were the five things that I learned:

1. Some of the founding fathers(Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, and John Adams, for instance) purposely did things to make them look better historically(such as George Washington rewriting old letters to make himself look more refined and Benjamin Franklin writing an autobiography that omitted some details of his life that made him look bad).
2. None of the five rotundas around Washington DC that depict the Revolutionary War depict a battle scene(no firing guns, no corpses lying on the ground, no bleeding, etc.).
3. Six times as many Americans died in the American Civil war as the Revolutionary War.
4. At times during the Revolutionary War(such as the invasion of Canada) the American army was so low on food sources that they were forced to eat soups made of candle wax and shoes to survive(sometimes even their own shoes).
5. Around one half of one percent of civilians died from war causes in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War(zero-point-five percent).

Revolutionary War rotunda(click hyperlink for source)

My Source for this:
Rethinking the Revolution