At the time of the Revolution America was very much a British "hope" ~ not just a colony. The population was already 40% of the numbers in UK proper, and growing like crazy.
With or without the Revolution America was going to far outdo the old homeland ~ if it hadn't have happened we'd probably have reverted the UK back to sheep farms and oak lots for the pigs ~ like it oughta' be.
113 posted on 11/19/2010 3:47:29 PM PST by muawiyah
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I'm with you until "...reverted the UK back to sheep farms and oak lots for the pigs." One problem with that claim is a little thing called "The Industrial Revolution" that had already begun in England and only later - and for a long time to a secondary degree - spread to the rest of Europe and the US.