[Vicomte13]

"How about the Civil War?"

It was bloodier in terms of total numbers, but in terms of the percentage of the population killed or maimed, the American Revolution was actually worse than the beating the French suffered at the hands of the Germans in World War I, or the Russians suffered at the hands of the Germans in World War II.
About 16% of the American population was wounded or killed in the American Revolution. The percentages in the Civil War were down around 4%.
The only modern wars that was as comparably brutal on the population in terms of sheer carnage were the Mexican Revolution and the Killing Fields of Cambodia.

The American Revolution was just unbelievably bad, and nowhere was it worse than down South, where it also turned into a murderous Civil War to boot.

[yooper]

Spilt blood has ALWAYS been measured in terms of volume, not percentage. As it should; it's a liquid.

By that standard, the Civil War wins hands down. By your logic, a duel common to the time is the most bloody; if both combatants hit each other, the spilt blood stat is 100%.

[CFC__VRWC]

Your numbers aren't even close. The total number of casualties (dead and wounded) in the Revolutionary War was about 10,000 (4,400 deaths). The 1790 Census (the first Census) recorded about 3.9 million Americans. So slightly more than 0.2 percent of the population was killed or wounded in the Revolution. If 16 percent of the population were casualties, that would mean that the population at the time of the Revolution could have only been about 63,000 or so. Impossible for the population to grow from 63,000 to just under 4 million in just over a decade.

In contrast, just under 1 million people (Union and Confederate) were casualties of the Civil War. The US population then was about 34 million. So about three percent of the population was killed or wounded in that conflict, an increase of an order of magnitude over the percentages for the American Revolution.

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[Pharmboy]

Read some history. You have no idea what you are talking about.

[MinorityRepublican]

Do you have proven statistics to back that up?

[MinorityRepublican]

Do you have proven statistics to back that up?