BIDEN THE CONQUEROR
THE SAVAGE NATION
00:00
What Happened After the Declaration of Independence?
After the declaration of independence, when congress and the states passed confiscation and banishment acts. Britain responded with dissolution, warfare. British warships bombarded coastal towns. Falmouth, for one, was reduced to a smoking ruin. The british redcoats looted indiscriminately,. seizing crops and property of rebels and loyalists alike. Plunder was often accompanied by rape. Wounded and defeated american soldiers were killed on the field. And when they were made prisoners, american soldiers suffered in conditions so terrible that mortality rates ran as high as 70%. Slaves owned by washington and thomas jefferson were among those who fled to the british.
Transcript
Play full episode
