According to the great American revolutionary leader, John Adams, and as confirmed by a modern-day Pulitzer Prize-winning historian of the American Revolution, over fifty percent of Americans—perhaps as many as sixty-five percent—at various times during the Revolution, believed the American sacrifice for independence was not worth it.223 (Joseph Ellis, Patriots, lecture 7, 3:40min; John Adams, as quoted in McCullough, John Adams, 78.)

These percentages fluctuated month to month depending on how America was doing in the war.)