Well Carson, touché.
I now see your point and I do agree with that the AR was a trendsetter for the FR. one point I would like to argue is that the Americans had help from multiple different countries like the French, Spain, and Holland. All three of these countries gave the Americans weapons, money and technology to fuel their victory. I think without the help of these 3 countries, the Americans would have never been able to defeat the British. On the other hand, France didn’t have any help form any other countries and had multiple armies take advantage of the fact that France was in a revolution. I think that with the aid of some of Frances allies, this transition of governments would have been more cleaner, and smoother. Using bloodshed and violence was the only way that the French could send a message to the hierarchy of France that they were not going to tolerate being bossed around any more. They were able to get their point across through extreme violence, they were able to successfully remove the hierarchy form France and clean out the class system that kept millions of French people under poor circumstances. This was shown when the French people began to call each other citizen instead of monsieur and master.
Cal i think you had some great points about distiguishing between the two countries revolutions but i disagree that violence was France's only option. France had the huge blood bath surrounding around the Bastille, but i dont think that the reign of terror was necessary. It ended us causing the deaths of millions and the people of France to be living in constant fear. In the end the monarchy came back so in the end the revolution might not have even been worthwhile
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