Poll: Who do YOU believe fired the Shot Heard Around the World?

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Hectix777

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Volkov said:
I've heard the theory that the first shot was a pistol shot. Pistols were primarily carried by British officers. Therefore, the British.

Also, OP: you may be surprised to find out that very few people outside the states actually care about the US revolutionary war. So it's hardly considered a big deal.
That's kinda sad
 

teebeeohh

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my money is on the minuteman, the English were nothing if not disciplined and the minuteman were itching for a fight.
 

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Im going to say MM, simply because most werent trained soldiers. BTW im American if my answer if you wanted that.
 

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Yes, the Americans took on the British Empire all alone, it's not like they had help from other world powers or that the British armies had completely overextended themselves. -_- anyway, Belgium fired first.
 

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emeraldrafael said:
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So when the Option is SIGN OR DIE you wouldnt sign? As a general, knowing all the men you had left would be massacred, without the foreknowledge that this would be blown up (because really, if people hadnt raised a stink and they were cool with it, the war wouldnt have started), you wouldnt sign to save their lives? Well, how presumptuous and pretentious of you.

Washington did what any general should. he put his men before his pride and moved to save their lives. Besides, it would have came to war regardless, cause Britain and France cant get along (even today in Canada, French Canadians cant get along with Brit Canadians), and each wanted the country for themselves for trade that was HIGHLY marketable.
Lemme start off by saying thank you for what you posted, which raised my opinion of you. And I do thank for portraying my forefather as such. And the French Canada and Brit Canada thing may be another war in the future, possibly. But that all depends on Luck, Probability, Quantum Mechanics, but mostly with a dice roll(doomsday arcade anyone?). Besides, why can't Canadians see themselves as Canadians instead of French or English Canadians? They're Canada now, not colonies. And the whole US territory for profit, I was taught that that Louis XVI of France helped the US as both a middle finger to England and a chance for Louis XVI to redeem himself for his failure of a rule. Not saying your wrong, I mean what every country loves is green and made of paper.
 

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this isnt my name said:
emeraldrafael said:
this isnt my name said:
So when the Option is SIGN OR DIE you wouldnt sign? As a general, knowing all the men you had left would be massacred, without the foreknowledge that this would be blown up (because really, if people hadnt raised a stink and they were cool with it, the war wouldnt have started), you wouldnt sign to save their lives? Well, how presumptuous and pretentious of you.

Washington did what any general should. he put his men before his pride and moved to save their lives. Besides, it would have came to war regardless, cause Britain and France cant get along (even today in Canada, French Canadians cant get along with Brit Canadians), and each wanted the country for themselves for trade that was HIGHLY marketable.
If he put people first he wouldnt sign a document that would be considered an act of war, he could have signed it and been massacred anyway, so his actions arent justified imo.
Again, washington didnt know. And unless you know french, you wouldnt either. Hindsight is 20/20 but foresight is never so clear. No one at the time thought this would be such a big thing He put the only people at risk before him, which was his men. Its easy to say such things now, but in the situation, either youw ould be a terrible general and sent all your men to their deaths without concern or you would have been a good general and folded as well.
 

Hectix777

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Chairman Miaow said:
Yes, the Americans took on the British Empire all alone, it's not like they had help from other world powers or that the British armies had completely overextended themselves. -_- anyway, Belgium fired first.
I know, France, Spain, even Native Americans helped out. I'm just talking about the early days before the war even started. Before the US had a formal military to fight the Brits or any bug allies to rely on.
 

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i would say its the south africans that traveled back intime to give the south AK47s so that they will win the war and slavery wouldnt be abolished.

What thats the wrong war.

Id say the two sides would havefired on each other at the same time. as in impossible to tell. cause there would be people on both sides with itchy trigger fingers. im assuming they a both using similar weapons with similar ranges.
 

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I'm gonna go with British. Also, I must say that the whole world at that point wasn't on you.

I like this question, at least it isn't the usual "revolutionary war was America v Britain, and we kicked your asses"
 

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Hectix777 said:
ARe you not reading?

WASHINGTON COULDNT READ FRENCH, AND NO ONE (FRANCE, BRITAIN, THE COLONIES, ANYONE) HAD ANY IDEA HOW FAR THIS WOULD GO AT THE TIME

He saw the moment for what it was, which was my mine are in danger. I'll sign this now, because I odnt have the time to wait, and if I dont it will escalate to war. Then I will take me punishment, and hopefully things will work out better.

No one, at the time, saw war coming.

Hectix777 said:
I meant the war for profit was the French and Indian/Seven Years War. That was fought from... um...1760s I think. Sorry, its been a while since I've had that class. By the time the Revolutionary war came, it was a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend (which is one of the reasons why France saw this as a good opportunity and to align themselves with the States).

Its very confusing, and both early wars stretch far beyond France/Natives vs Colonies/Britain and States vs Britain. They in the truest sense were the first world wars.

As for Canadians, I wouldnt know, you'd have to ask them.