Nationalism = The Widespread Feeling Of Unity As A Nation

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all across the colonies sat together in war strategy meetings and fought side by side in the battles and they found after talking amongst themselves that they had more in common than they had originally imagined. (1) They discovered that they were all fellow Americans who, for the most part, spoke the same language and shared the same goals and ideals. The French were a threat to all of them. They learned that they could be strong when they banded together, and they needed to be because in the early years of the war there were few British naval reinforcements. Because of this, the colonists had to handle the war mostly on their own. The British soldiers that were there were of little help because, even though they outnumbered the French, they were slow in receiving orders from Britain. The colonists lost their earlier feeling of being protected by the mother country. This lack of government support contributed to some of the anarchy created by the colonists.
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