I mentioned that, that's the one where no shots were fired. No great victory songs to be had. Of course it led to the failed Jacobite rebellion, and that got songs, so...
Most of the American takes on it I have seen say British were distracted, we were a side show, but nobody won, nobody lost, and if we had lost, the British would have demanded concessions. The treaty was one long exercise in pretending the whole thing never happened on both sides. Basically we did the same thing as we did with the revolution. It's not that we won any major battles, we just made ourselves too unpleasant to bother with while they were at war with the French. Of course during the revolution, we also convinced France to go to war with Britain, but the same principle applied.
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Date: 2011-09-05 12:06 am (UTC)Most of the American takes on it I have seen say British were distracted, we were a side show, but nobody won, nobody lost, and if we had lost, the British would have demanded concessions. The treaty was one long exercise in pretending the whole thing never happened on both sides. Basically we did the same thing as we did with the revolution. It's not that we won any major battles, we just made ourselves too unpleasant to bother with while they were at war with the French. Of course during the revolution, we also convinced France to go to war with Britain, but the same principle applied.