Even if our comparitive losses in the Revolution were only around 2.5 million (extrapolated from 25,000) that is still around 5 times our 1/2 million lost in WW2.ss
France suffered a far greater loss, as the economic weakness coused by their contribution was a serious factor in the subsequent French overthrow of the monarchy and executions of thousands by guillotine (sp?). Hero Laffayete and family were also imprisoned in France and faced death in consequence. French help was not the only cause of their economic problems, the Laki Fissure event in Iceland also affected European prosperity as was noted by Benjamin Franklin who was in Europe during that period.
Oops I misread your post. Apologies.
“Even if our comparitive losses in the Revolution were only around 2.5 million (extrapolated from 25,000) that is still around 5 times our 1/2 million lost in WW2.”
The 25,000 would represent about 1% of the total colonial population of the time, of whom about 1/3 were loyalists, 1/3 were anti-loyalists, pro-independence, and 1/3 who waited to see how the war turned out before picking a side. That’s a sizeable chunk of dead anyway you look at it. Using that 1% standard today, we’d suffer 3.3 million dead under a similar scenario.