Statistics

GENERAL INFO:
Population (1760)........ 1,600,000
Population (1780)........ 2,780,000
Enrolled......................... 200,000
Ratio............................... 5.7%
Cost of war (1782)........ $134,645,177
National debt (1783).... $36,500,375

1780 POPULATION ESTIMATES BY STATE:
Connecticut- 206,701
Delaware- 45,385
Georgia- 56,071
Kentucky- 45,000
Maine- 49,133
Maryland- 245,474
Massachusetts- 268,627
New Hampshire- 87,802
New Jersey- 139,627
New York- 210,541
North Carolina- 270,133
Pennsylvania- 327,305
Rhode Island- 52,946
South Carolina- 180,000
Tennessee- 10,000
Vermont- 47,620
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BATTLE CASUALTIES
Killed:
Army....... 4,044
Navy........ 342
Marines... 49
TOTAL.... 4,435

Wounded:
Army........ 6,004
Navy......... 114
Marines.... 70
TOTAL..... 6,188

TOTAL..... 10,682
Ratio.............................. 2.4%
Ratio-killed................... 2.2%
Ratio-dead.................... 2.2%
Ratio-casualties............ 5.3%
K.I.A per Month........... 55


Total Deaths (combat/non-combat)... 25,324
Wounded................................................. 8,445
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OTHER FACTS:
1) By 1779, there were more Americans fighting with the British than with Gen. George Washington's Continental Army:
There were no less than 21 regiments (estimated to total between 6,500-8,000 men) of loyalists in the British Army. Washington reported a field army of 3,468. About 1/3 of Americans opposed the Revolutionary War.

2) History's first submarine attack took place in New York Harbor in 1776. The Connecticut inventor David Bushnell called his submarine the "Turtle" because it resembled 2 large tortoise shells of equal size joined together. The watertight hull was made of 6-inch-thick oak timbers coated with tar.
On September 6, 1776, the Turtle targeted the HMS Eagle, flagship of the British fleet. The Turtle was supposed to secure a cask of gunpowder to the hull of the Eagle and sneak away before it exploded. Unfortunately, the Turtle got entangled with the Eagle's rudder bar, lost ballast and surfaced before the gunpowder could be planted.