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From: Jeff Liebermann <jeffl@cruzio.com>
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On Fri, 30 May 2025 01:48:47 GMT, cyclintom <cyclintom@yahoo.com>
wrote:

>Even in the new world colonies they had 10,000 british troops stationed

50,000 is more closer to the mark than 10,000.

"The British Army and the War of Independence"
<https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/34530/chapter-abstract/292941888>
"At its peak, the British army in North America had approximately
50,000 officers and men, constituting the largest expeditionary force
sent overseas by any British governments."

However, there's a problem.  All 50,000 were not British.  Here's a
source that claims 30,000 were Hessians and 25,000 were Americans
fighting in "provincial" regiments.  
"The British Army in the American Revolution"
<https://www.battlefields.org/learn/articles/british-army-american-revolution>
Since the total is over 50,000, all the numbers are likely to be
exaggerated.

>hey were forcing the colonists to house and feed these troops. People that talk about history as if they understand it when they read a kindergarten book about it should learn actual facts.

Facts?  Where did you get your numbers?  Or did you just invent them
of the occasion.

>When I said that I read out 3 libraries of all of their non-fiction did you think that books written about the revolution written in 1850 weren't closer to the facts? Perhaps you should stick with the CNN version.

What book about the American Revolution was written in 1850 that was
"closer to the facts"?  I'm curious.

You have a faulty memory.  Your original claim did not include the
"non-fiction" clause, which you added fairly recently.  This is your
earliest mention of libraries that I could find:

06/07/2022
<https://groups.google.com/g/rec.bicycles.tech/c/QNPNSofg064/m/Xaamy15iBQAJ>
"I would warrant that I've read more than 20 times more books than you
have. I read out three public libraries, the military library and all
of the books I used to gain the knowledge to become an engineer."



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