Steven P. McNicoll wrote:
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The US might instead have gone the route of Canada or
Australia, New Zealand, or, hmm...

The eventual, peaceful independence of the US would seem to have
been at least as inevitable as the eventual, peaceful end of slavery,
but neither would have come soon enough without war.


Not to students of history.

Not to some perhaps.

Some students of history have soem pretty wacky ideas.

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FF