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For Want of a Nail: If Burgoyne Had Won at Saratoga is an alternate history novel published in 1973 by the American business historian Robert Sobel. The novel depicts an alternate world where the American Revolution was unsuccessful.

Typically, revolutions take the form of organized movements aimed at effecting change—economic change, technological change, political change, or social change. The people who start revolutions have determined the institutions currently in place in society have failed or no longer serve their intended purpose.

The American Revolution was principally caused by colonial opposition to British attempts to impose greater control over the colonies and to make them repay the crown for its defense of them during the French and Indian War (1754–63).

The Taxation Acts, the Boston Massacre, the Boston Tea Party, and the Intolerable Acts were the four main causes that lead to the American Revolution.

Three major consequences of the American Revolution were the independence of the United States, the loss of territory for the United Kingdom, and the instigation of further democratization and independence in many other countries. Each of these contributed to making human societies more diverse and modern.

Throughout the course of the war, an estimated 6,800 Americans were killed in action, 6,100 wounded, and upwards of 20,000 were taken prisoner. Historians believe that at least an additional 17,000 deaths were the result of disease, including about 8,000–12,000 who died while prisoners of war.

The Continental Congress adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776. The Treaty of Paris ended the Revolutionary War between Great Britain and the United States, recognized American independence and established borders for the new nation.

Table of Contents The Stamp Act (March 1765) The Townshend Acts (June-July 1767) The Boston Massacre (March 1770) The Boston Tea Party (December 1773) The Coercive Acts (March-June 1774) Lexington and Concord (April 1775) British attacks on coastal towns (October 1775-January 1776)