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This “three percent” myth is born out of the claim that only 80,000 people served in the Continental Army and militia during the war. With the 1780 population estimated at 2,780,369, that gives us 2.96 percent of the country serving in George Washington’s Army.
It turns out that the 80,000 number bandied about was the number of pension files and bounty-land warrant applications.
Historian John Ferling finds that the Continental Army size was actually 100,000, not counting the militia. “Probably twice that number soldiered as militiamen.
More Americans Fought in the American Revolution Than We Thought | Observer
So it's not 80,000 who fought in the Revolutionary War, it's 300,000.
So it's not 3% of the population, it's 11%. They should be calling themselves, the Eleven Percenters.
Three Percenters (adl.org)
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It turns out that the 80,000 number bandied about was the number of pension files and bounty-land warrant applications.
Historian John Ferling finds that the Continental Army size was actually 100,000, not counting the militia. “Probably twice that number soldiered as militiamen.
More Americans Fought in the American Revolution Than We Thought | Observer
So it's not 80,000 who fought in the Revolutionary War, it's 300,000.
So it's not 3% of the population, it's 11%. They should be calling themselves, the Eleven Percenters.
Three Percenters (adl.org)
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