If you aren't from the US, what are you taught about the Revolutionary War?

Question

In elementary/secondary school. I understand that it's probably a small amount of any other nation's history, but I'm just curious.

Answer 1

There are many things one can learn from the Revolutionary War. History is history regardless of the nation, quite frankly, it would be nice if they taught every single revolutionary war, but they wouldn't have the time. The American Revolutionary War is the primary example of a revolution going really bad until it finally succeeded. It was a tremendous loss of life especially for the American side and the American side did not complain much or hold any grudges.

Answer 2

In CANADA, we would devote a lot of time even in Grade 8 about this.  We would know the causes, the personalities, and the main events, but would probably spend only about 2-3 weeks on this....We would also know why Canada rejected Ben Franklin's invite into the Revolution.

Our major focus would not be the war itself, but the...Loyalists, or the people in the 13 colonies who chose to stay loyal to Great Britain...and immigrated into Canada for the purpose.

Close to 200,000 people.  (There were 1.5 million in the 13 colonies at the time.)  More than politics were involved, as some of the Loyalists came for the free land, others came because they were persecuted for their beliefs.  (eg., Do you know where the word 'lynching' comes from?)  Anyone descended from the Loyalists gets to use the special UEL suffix (United Empire Loyalist) after their name.

After that, we would study the American Revolution not as a unique event, but as part of a general pattern that others revolutions (eg., French Revolution) follows.