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Originally Posted by HarryT
From what I have read about the American Revolution, about 30% of the American colonists actively supported it, an approximately equal number (ie another 30%) actively opposed it, and the other 40% just didn't want to get involved, so it's perhaps untrue to say that it was a "popular" uprising.
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30 percent seems pretty high for a revolution... Most of them had far less...
(and why the "thing" about the American revolution? It was the British Empire's Vietnam War, and you lost. Ok.)