Great Britain vs. The Colonies

British national debt in 1755: £72,289,673⁴²
British national debt in 1763: £122,603,336⁴³
British national debt in 1764: £129,586,789 (This was money that the British government borrowed from banks and investors, and it would be the equivalent of tens of trillions of dollars today.)⁴⁴

Value of annual British imports to the North American colonies in the 1720s: just under £200,000⁴⁵
Value of annual British imports to the North American colonies in the 1770s: nearly £885,000⁴⁶

Average annual increase in the gross national product (GNP) of British North America between 1650 and 1770: 2.7%⁴⁷
Total number of times the gross national product (GNP) of British North America multiplied between 1650 and 1770: 25⁴⁸

Number of regular troops the British maintained in North America after the French and Indian War: 10,000⁴⁹
Annual cost for maintaining those troops: over £200,000⁵⁰

Average annual amount that royal customs collectors amassed in 1763, when George Grenville took office as Lord of the Treasury: £1,800⁵¹

British America's most valuable exports in the early 1770s, in order of total value: sugar, tobacco, wheat, rice⁵²
Number of newspapers in the American colonies at the outbreak of the Revolution: 37 (most were weeklies)⁵³

The Colonies and Slavery

Number of Baptist churches in Virginia in 1769: 7⁵⁴
Number of Baptist churches in Virginia in 1774: 54⁵⁵

Enslaved portion of Virginia's population in 1700: 9%⁵⁶
Enslaved portion of Virginia's population in 1775: 40% (186,000 people)⁵⁷
Year that Virginia's slave population began increasing naturally: 1730⁶¹

Enslaved portion of New York's population in 1775: 14% (over 26,000 people)⁵⁸
Enslaved portion of Connecticut's population in 1775: 8% (over 15,000 people)⁵⁹
Enslaved portion of Rhode Island's population in 1775: 6% (over 3,000 people)⁶⁰

White population of the British colonies in North America in 1770: 1,696,254⁶²
Black population of the British colonies in North America in 1770: 468,822⁶³
Estimated portion of the 2.5 million colonists during the Revolutionary War period who were Black: 20% (about 500,000 men, women, and children)⁶⁴

The Revolution: America's Side

Number of Americans who remained loyal to Britain during the Revolution: as many as 500,000 (20% of white Americans)⁶⁵

Length of standard colonial flintlock musket used by American militia: 5 feet⁶⁶
Weight of standard colonial flintlock musket used by American militia: about 10 pounds⁶⁷
Ammunition of standard colonial flintlock musket used by American militia: lead balls weighing about an ounce, fired in a single shot⁶⁸

First large sum entered in George Washington's account book during the war: $333.33 (a large amount of money at the time), to pay an anonymous spy to go into Boston and gain intelligence on the British army's plans.⁶⁹

Total population of the British colonies in North America in 1770: 2,165,076⁷⁰
Population of London alone around 1775: almost 1 million⁷¹

Number of military engagements in the Revolutionary War: 1,546⁷²

Age of some of the youngest members of the Continental Army: 10 (e.g. Israel Trask, son of a Lieutenant who volunteered and served as a cook's helper and messenger)⁷³

Age of some of the oldest members of the Continental Army: 57 (e.g. the very popular General Israel Putnam)⁷⁴

Monthly salary for teenaged fifers and drummers in the Continental Army (over 500 of whom served during the Revolutionary War): $8⁷⁵

The End of the War

Total American battle casualties in the Revolutionary War: 6,824 (estimates range between this figure and 4,435; some 90% of them came from the Continental Army)⁷⁶
Ratio of American deaths to the free white male population (aged 16 to 45) who served in the war: 1 in 20 (This would be the equivalent of about 3 million people today.)⁷⁷

Total Americans wounded in the Revolutionary War: 8,445⁷⁸
Total American deaths from disease in the Revolutionary War: 10,000 (approximation)⁷⁹
Total Americans who died in British prisons in the Revolutionary War: 8,500⁸⁰
Total Americans captured in the Revolutionary War: 18,152⁸¹

Total British casualties from battle and disease in the Revolutionary War: around 24,000⁸²