[DiogenesLamp]

By the time Sherman made his march through the South, the war was no longer about keeping the money flowing into Northern pockets, it had become a war of hatred and revenge, because those damn Southerners had fought so hard and made it cost so much to subjugate them.

But 5 to 1 manpower always wins in the end, if someone was fanatical enough to shed so much blood, which Lincoln was.

Thank God that King George III was not so willing to kill so many people. He decided to just let us go rather than continue the killing.

[missthethunder]

“Thank God that King George III was not so willing to kill so many people. He decided to just let us go rather than continue the killing.”

Well, this is not the topic of this thread, but…
I like Thomas Payne’s words regarding the British Navy.
He was there. King George did not just let us go.
Britain was just spread too thin across the world.
Below is from “Common Sense”.

The English list of ships of war, is long and formidable, but not a tenth part of them are at any one time fit for service, numbers of them are not in being; yet their names are pompously continued in the list, if only a plank be left of the ship: and not a fifth part of such as are fit for service, can be spared on any one station at one time. The East and West Indies, Mediterranean, Africa, and other parts, over which Britain extends her claim, make large demands upon her navy. From a mixture of prejudice and inattention, we have contracted a false notion respecting the navy of England, and have talked as if we should have the whole of it to encounter at once, and, for that reason, supposed that we must have one as large; which not being instantly practicable, has been made use of by a set of disguised Tories to discourage our beginning thereon. Nothing can be further from truth than this; for if America had only a twentieth part of the naval force of Britain, she would be by far an over-match for her; because, as we neither have, nor claim any foreign dominion, our whole force would be employed on our own coast, where we should, in the long run, have two to one the advantage of those who had three or four thousand miles to sail over, before they could attack us, and the same distance to return in order to refit and recruit. And although Britain, by her fleet, hath a check over our trade to Europe, we have as large a one over her trade to the West Indies, which, by laying in the neighborhood of the Continent, lies entirely at its mercy.