The European ones, and there were many, were all very different from the American one. Most of them failed, but often left a powerful residue of political reorganization at every level.
The American Rebellion largely left state and local institutions, highly fragmented but already radically democratized, in place, and failed to achieve consolidations similar to Europe.
Europe's revolutionary consolidations themselves, in retrospect, cost Western Civilization more, in the long run, than the dreamland goals which they then failed miserably to achieved, frankly.
This has had huge implications, in different directions, for both.
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