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.
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