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A revolution that was based largely on the American revolution, as I recall. You know, liberty and all that stuff.

Good, you can point out where the American War of Independence involved: blowing Catholic priests off cannon, conducting a massacre of Catholics just for being Catholics (Vendee region of France), converting Christian churches to worship the goddess of Reason, inflicting something like the Terror of Robespierre. In short, behaving much more like the Communists of Russia than Englishmen whose rights were being violated.

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Ever wonder where the phrase 'lynch mob' comes from?

After the American Revolution, there was a judge named Lynch who had such a habit of hanging Loyalists, that his name became synonymous with the act of hanging. And the bloodthirsty mobs that attended each 'lynching' became known as 'lynch mobs'.

So, in other words, the American Revolution also had its fair share of terror.

Be that as it may, that doesn't mean that the French revolution was not rooted in the same ideals as the American.