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Old July 6th, 2006, 01:02 PM
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Renegade 13 said: it is essentially celebrating the beginning of a war that killed hundreds of thousands.
You're off by an order of magnitude. According to my almanac, American troops killed and wounded combined were 10,643. I would expect British casualties to be similar, and civilian causualities lower.
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I doubt the memory of the American Revolution had much to do with Canadian independence at all.
No, but if the independent United States had not pressured Great Britain on the third clause of the Atlantic Charter during WWII, most of those nations that broke off after WWII would not have become independent.
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