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To what extent is it accurate to call the american revolution a civil war?
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Since about 500,000 people (including men women and children) among 2,500,000 colonists remained loyal to the King and it was calculated that about 50,000 of them had at all
fought against the Patriots on the British side,
some historian is of the opinion that the Revolutionary War should be considered as a Civil War.
However, if we consider that , after the war, only 15-20% of the Loyalists emigrated to other parts of British Empire while the great majority of them remained in America and were allowed to be citizens of the new country, define the conflict for the independence a "Civil War" would be rather excessive.
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