The Battle of the Views

Author’s Note: This is a point of view piece about how both the Americans and Great Britain felt around the time of the Revolutionary War. Everybody in America thinks they were right for not wanting the taxes and everybody in Great Britain thought they were right for taxing.  This piece will explain the point of view from people of both of these countries.  Both countries would’ve had very different point of views because both of them had honor for fighting for their country.

Mostly everybody in America knows about how America came to be and how they thought America was right about rebelling and breaking away from Britain.  The thing is that these people who think America did everything are from America, but if you look at this situation from Great Britain’s point of view the story might be very, very different.  For instance a Great Britain citizen might think that America did everything wrong and was not smart to rebel.

Journal Entry 1773 by a British Loyalist: I don’t know why those stupid Patriots calling themselves America’s, tearing apart the beautiful country of Great Britain.   First the Americans don’t want to pay their taxes, which are only helping all of them, now just the last week they break into our tea ships and dump all of it in the sea.  How dare them, we give them the privilege to live in Britan and they repay us by vandalizing all of our goods.  Pathetic!  Not only are the patriots doing all of this, but they are also threatening to start a war.  All I know is that we don’t care about the threats, if we had a war we will destroy them.          

Journal Entry 1783 by an American Soldier :  I can’t believe we are this far into the war.  Everybody on the King George’s side doubted us since the beginning, but look where we are now on the verge of winning the war.  Although, we didn’t win yet, once those French soldiers come it will be an easy ride to freedom, if they ever come.  We have spent months of waiting for those darn French, if they could just come and help, we will end this war.  Alas, all us soldiers can do now are fight as hard as we can for America.  God Bless America!

All of the people living and fighting honored their country and it in shown through their point of view that people from different countries had very different point of view.