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  "publishedAt": "2026-07-02T04:00:00.000Z",
  "site": "https://jonathanstephens.us",
  "tags": [
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    "Archaeology",
    "American War Of Independence",
    "Revolutionary War",
    "American History",
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  "textContent": "> The American War of Independence was particularly atrocity-prone because it had a unique combination of features: it was an anti-government insurrection, a civil war and an ethnic conflict all combined into one particularly brutal war.\n>\n> Because it was a rebellion, the British regarded American troops as treason-committing rebels and traitors and treated them with unimaginable cruelty. Because it was also a civil war (the American population was split between pro-independence and pro-British camps), it was a particularly bitter domestic internecine struggle – and because both sides used Native American tribes as allies, indigenous people were subjected to extraordinarily violent racism expressed through appalling massacres, ethnic cleansing and, in one case, what would today be considered a genocide.\n\n> Around 30,000 African-Americans served in the war (on both sides), but research has revealed that, largely due to shocking racially discriminatory practices, their death rate was roughly four times greater than that of white troops.",
  "title": "Shocking new evidence reveals true brutality of American War of Independence"
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