@BillRM,
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Can you cite some evidence?
Evidence for what that the colonies living standards was far higher then that of the mother country for the average citizens or that some of the king soldiers did not return after the war?
There was another problem at that time.
I've always figured that to feel halfway good about being involved in combat, most people need two things i.e. a believable cause and a reasonable chance to win.
From the dawn of the gunpowder age and also from the time that Innocent VIII issued the papal bull equating birth control with sorcery and witchcraft, European states were in an almost continual state of warfare in which neither of those two things were ever present; war and overseas expansion were seen as primary means of population control.
Under those circumstances, Friedrich II (the "great") once told the philosopher Voltaire that if any of his (Friedrich's) soldiers ever thought about what the **** they were doing for fifteen seconds, they'd all be gone. That (preventing thinking) in fact was most of the point of all the drilling in the Prussian military system.
Basically, all of the German names you see in Pennsylvania, are those of people who thought about it for fifteen seconds and made it to the New World.
That situation is also why the founding fathers abhorred war and wanted citizens to have power over government as a last resort.
