From what I understand it refers to the percentage of colonists who actually participated in the Revolutionary War.what is a 3%er?
Good for them. I prefer to CC...
Next question; where do they get the 3% figure? The muster roles for the Continental army totaled approximately 250,000 men out of a population of about 2,000,000. That equals 12.5%. Few of them were for the entire duration of the war, but it still seems like they should count for something. I suppose that being a 12.5 percenter doesn't sound as exclusive.
Next question; where do they get the 3% figure? The muster roles for the Continental army totaled approximately 250,000 men out of a population of about 2,000,000. That equals 12.5%. Few of them were for the entire duration of the war, but it still seems like they should count for something. I suppose that being a 12.5 percenter doesn't sound as exclusive.
I see by your avatar that you are a fellow time traveler that visits the 18th century for the purpose of drinking from a tin flask and entertaining tourists...Salute'!!!
Based on my experience as the worst sort of thread counter it is my belief that 1/3 of the colonists were Loyalists...1/3 were patriots....And 1/3 didn't give a rat's a$$ one way or the other...In the Carolina's there are accounts of people switching sides (there is one account of a man who switched 5 times) depending on which side their neighbor they had been feuding with for the past twenty years was on.......
Here is the book where I got some of my information...It's a great read and well researched...
Next question; where do they get the 3% figure? The muster roles for the Continental army totaled approximately 250,000 men out of a population of about 2,000,000. That equals 12.5%. Few of them were for the entire duration of the war, but it still seems like they should count for something. I suppose that being a 12.5 percenter doesn't sound as exclusive.