There was no Britain till 1707! also about redcoats

[Didz]

But while the American revolution was in effect a sideshow, I believe it was the only rebelion going at the time.

Ouch! What you just said

Ok! Bit of a history lesson

Rebellions

1715 First Jacobite Uprising.

1745 The Jabobite Rebellion (take 2) Bonny Prince Charlie, Culloden, the birth of Great Britain and the United Kingdom) Just a minor thing really, unless your a Scot of course. Tartan is banned for something like 100 years.

1773-1774 The Pugachev Revolt in Russia. Emelian Pugachev, a Don Cossack freebooter, rallied thousands of disaffected peasants by proclaiming himself Tsar Peter III, who had been actually been deposed in 1762. “This is a revolt of the poor against the rich, of the slaves against their masters.” Defeated by Catherine the Great. Russian peasants would remain downtrodden until 1914.

1775-1776 The American Revolution

1789 The French Revolution begins. France copies Britian and kills its King, but unlike Britain fails to get rid of the dictator that steps into his shoes. Heroes ??? (The Scarlet Pimpernel perhaps?)

Other key events equally worthy of special campigns.

1700-1721 The Great Northern War (Epic conflict between Sweden and Russia and most of europe, Peter the Great, major hero of)

1701-1714 The War of the Spanish Succession (Austria, Prussia, Britain, Dutch, Savoy, Portugal) v (France, Spain, Bavaria) Duke of Marlborough major hero of, probably the best General in British history. This was the war that set the standard the British Army has aspired to ever since, for which the French have never forgiven us.

1733-1738 The War of the Polish Succession (France, Spain, Savoy) v (Russia, Austria, Saxony)

1740-1748 The War of the Austrian Succession (Frederick the Great, major hero of, also Marshal Saxe famous writer of historical references on the art of war commanded in this conflict.)

1744-1748 King Georges War (France, New France) v (Britain, British America, The Iroquios Confederacy) Essentially the American theatre of the War of the Austrian Succesison

1744-1782 The Rise of the British Indian Empire, Clive of India major hero of, Battle of Plassey, the French learn to hate us even more.

1756-1763 The Seven Years War (Prussia, Britain, Hannover, Portugal, Iroquios Confederacy, Brunswick-Wolfenbuttel, Hesse-Kassel) v (France, Holy Roman Empire, Russia, Sweden, Spain, Saxony, Sardinia) Loads of heroes in this one inlcuding Frederick the Great, Wolfe, Montcalme and Von Daun. Too many great battles to list but Quebec, Minden (more glory for the British over the French), Zorndorf, Rossbach (Big Prussian victory over Russia and then France) French and Indian War in America. France decides to throw in the towel in India and let the British have it.

1778-1779 The War of the Bavarian Succession (Austria) v (Prussia, Bavaria, Saxony) Maria Theresa of Austria v Frederick the Great. Effectively, keeping them out of the American War of Independance

1799 The rise of Napoleon as Emperor/dictator of France.