American Revolution

[Astromancer]

Originally Posted by whswhs

I would note, though, that Robert Heinlein, a staunch American patriot, described the War of 1812 in Starship Troopers as one of the brushfire wars that sprang up on the periphery of the Napoleonic conflict. So at least treating the Anglo-American conflict as a series of minor wars has precedent.

It would be valid for the war of 1812, which was a side effect of the Napoleonic wars. However, while we were having the American Revolutionary War here in North America, Europe was going through what they call The Wars of the American Revolution. The American event setting off the world war, rather than the world war setting off the American event.