[Bubba Ho-Tep]

I have absolutely no idea how many Irish were killed in those wars. But at least 600,000 Americans died in the 1860’s and I am not certain if Ireland even had a population of 600,000 in the 1500’s.

The Down Survey, conducted immediately after the Irish War, estimated 614,000 Irish dead, 40% of the total population. That doesn't count the 12,000 Irish sold into slavery in the West Indies.

For an example of how the British handled independence movements in the mid-19th Century, look at the Indian Mutiny and how that was put down. Mass executions, hundreds of thousands dead.

[Nosterrex]

Sounds brutal. No doubt if the Brits had won the Revolutionary War, there would have been mass executions. I would raise at least one thought. Not that I support this view, but we tend to be less humane when we look at other races as inferior. I wonder how that may have influenced the Brits treatment of the Indians? I know that Cromwell hated Catholicism, and his treatment of the Irish was greatly influenced by this. He viewed this more as a religious war than merely an independence movement. The South, for all its faults, was still composed of Americans and predominately Protestant. It reminds me of Sir Edmund Burks’ comments in Parliament when it spoke about the war with the colonists, “My God, they are Englishmen!”

I was actually thinking of independence movements closer to the time of the American Civil War, such as the Boer Wars.

[QBFimi]

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