The American and French Revolution The American Revolution and the French Revolution are two of the most widely known revolutions the world has ever seen. Many consider these two revolutions to be scarily similar to one another, but when you dig deeper into this area of discussion, you can see that the two revolutions are perhaps not as similar as many would think. Of course there are the obvious similarities, for example the fact that they both occurred during the later eighteenth century and that both undermined the power of existing, monarchical governments. Obviously, the French had their own monarchy (King Louis XVI), while the American colonies were under the monarchy of Britain (King George III) (Wikipedia, American Revolution). The body count of both revolutions was extremely high, an obvious similarity between the revolutions. The American Revolution had a body count of about 25,000 (American War Library, Numbers of Americans Killed/Wounded, by Action) and the French Revolution has an estimated 40,000. However, the similarity ends at the body count, as the way these thousands died are highly different. The 25,000 dead of the American Revolution died in war/action, whilst the 40,000 dead of the French Revolution were mainly executed with the Guillotine. …show more content…
For both revolutions, there were financial challenges, however, once again there is a difference within the similarity. The revolutions both had financial issues, but the issues themselves were unique to each other. For the American Revolution, Britain depended completely on the colonies, and therefore kept taxing them. The colonists did not, however, did not attempt to prevent the taxation at all, they were instead simply more frustrated that there was no reasonable basis for the taxation, feeling that they received absolutely no benefit from the funds as they were being spent back in