# American revolutionary war

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [May 29, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-revolutionary-war/405865 "2007-05-29T04:07:31Z")\
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**Author:** ![gatorman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/96bed5/32.png) [@gatorman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gatorman)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 4:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-revolutionary-war/405865/1 "2007-05-29T04:07:31Z")

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I was wondering if anyone has ever estimated the number of dead/wounded on both sides of the revolutionary war…

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**Author:** ![pinkfreud](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/pinkfreud/32/17603_2.png) [@pinkfreud](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/pinkfreud)\
**Post date:** [May 29, 2007, 4:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/american-revolutionary-war/405865/2 "2007-05-29T04:24:13Z")

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Scroll down to item 16 [here](http://users.erols.com/mwhite28/wars18c.htm) for several estimates.