Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman scripsit:
>
> > My sentiments exactly. I wouldn't really consider the War of American
> > Independance a world war, though, because in the strictest sense it was
> > an internal affair, Britian preventing the colonists from becoming
> > independant.  I'm sure other people wouldn't see it that way, as its
> > taking the concept of internal affairs to the extreme.
>
> But in 1777 France and the Dutch Republic declared war on Britain also.
> That made the "internal affair" a genuine multi-continent war.
>
I never said that concept wasn't flawed. ;-).
You could say it's an American war with some additional fighting in
other places, as it didn't involve a great number of nations, nor did it
involve the good majority of the world.

Even the First World War, which was at the very heart an international
European war, included Japan, which was very far flung indeed. The
Second World War, though, is the only war that could be considered a
world war by all standards, as it involved most of the continents and
oceans.

--
Robert