[ClearCase_guy]

Fact is, there will always be a sizable chunk of the population that will take the view that you are terrorists and traitors and thus side with the government. That’s how it worked out in the revolutionary war.

I forget -- how did that turn out? Did the ruling government beat the insurgents?

You Brits still don't get us, do you? All of your arguments are exceptionally weak and show that you don't know what you're talking about.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

Yes, the revolutionaries won, thanks to the fact that the technological disparity between the two sides was not exactly great and the also fact that the French and to lesser extent the Spanish and the Dutch, provided crucial assistance with equipment and naval support, without which ultimate victory would have been nigh-on impossible.
You reckon any foreign government would dare to support you the against the US government the way the French did against the British?

[cripplecreek]

As I understand it huge numbers of british loyalists were stripped of their property and evicted from the country during and after the war.

[sinsofsolarempirefan]

And as I said before, in the US Civil War, the insurgents lost, due to a distinct lack of foreign assistance and a somewhat greater disparity in technology and equipment available to them by that time....

[r9etb]

Did the ruling government beat the insurgents?

They would have, had it not been for the help of the French.