LAD#4: Rethinking the Revolution

Things that I learned:
1) The American Revolution was America's longest declared war (eight years).
2) By around 1830, practically every member of the Revolutionary generation had died.
3) Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" was not necessarily a call for war (it had already been raging for eight months), but written to prevent any form of reconciliation with Britain.
4) Similar to how World War I was eclipsed by World War II in significance, many believe that the Revolutionary War was downplayed due to the fact that six times as many people died in the Civil War than in the War for Independence (But: Compared to the Civil War, 1 in 4 people died in the Revolutionary War, and 1 in 5 died in the Civil War.  More people died proportionally in the Revolutionary War).
5) Some American soldiers were forced to walk barefoot and naked in the coldest of winter because they lacked so much supplies.