British Quote by Rachel Martin

For a very long time, loyalists were often left out of patriotic American histories of the revolution. Or they were caricatured as upper-class Tory…

— Linda Colley

Technically it was a victory for the British, who attacked the patriot fortifications but a Pyrrhic victory if ever there was: out of 2,200…

— Geoffrey Wheatcroft

From April 1775 to July 1776, the undeclared war between England and its American colonies smoldered, flared up, appeared to sputter out... It was…

— Gore Vidal

Virtually every war fought since the Act of Union had gone badly at some stage, but before 1783 none had ended in defeat. Nor…

— Linda Colley

“The Westminster government continued to aggravate the situation by haughty mismanagement, and on 4 July 1776 the Congress passed a Declaration of Independence from…

— Adam Zamoyski

The central fact of North American history is that there were fifteen British Colonies before 1776. Thirteen rebelled and two did not.

— June Callwood

The colonies would gladly have borne the little tax on tea and other matters had it not been that England took away from the…

— Benjamin Franklin

The American Revolution was, in fact, a battle against the philosophy of Locke and the English utilitarians.

— Robert Trout

“In this book the reader will find, I hope, an antidote for historical amnesia. To this day, the public remembers the Revolution mostly in…

— Gary B. Nash

Some of my ancestors fought in the American Revolution. A few more wore red coats, a few wore blue coats, and the rest wore…

— Edward Abbey

I certainly don't think that the heirs of the American Revolution were a particularly noble class.

— H. W. Brands

If you look back historically, admittedly a long time ago, there were three Afghan wars in which Britain didn't even come a good second.…

— John Major