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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Science
David Keys

Shocking new evidence reveals true brutality of American War of Independence

A painting by Hugh Charles McBarron, portraying American troops in the American War of Independence - (Wikimedia Commons)

As the world prepares to commemorate this coming Saturday’s 250th anniversary of the American Declaration of Independence, new historical and archaeological evidence and analyses are allowing both academics and the public at large to more fully understand how and why the American War of Independence was even more violent than often popularly believed.

Research over the past few years has shed new light on the massacres, ethnic cleansing and extreme maltreatment of prisoners that occurred during the war.

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