During the Revolutionary War, about 20% of the Population of America Had Cast Their Lot With The Crown.
“One can tell a Tory by his looks,” Lewis Howell, a surgeon with the 2nd New Jersey Regiment, wrote his father in late June. The …
Month: August 2019
More Amazing Correlations Between Us During the Revolution and Today.
“can tell a Tory by his looks,” Lewis Howell, a surgeon with the 2nd New Jersey Regiment, wrote his father in late June. The good …
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Just Keeping Warm Was A Miracle For The Colonial Army.
This is a passage from Rick Atkinson’s The British Are Coming! “The army would burn eight thousand cords in six months, and on particularly cold …
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The Antipathy Between The British And The Colonists Was Very Bad.
This is from Rick Atkinson’s Book The British Are Coming! “Irked at the dissent, the government had stepped up covert surveillance and intelligence gathering. Suspected …
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John Wilkes, British Statesman Made A Prediction About the Americans. A Really Good One.
John Wilkes, a British radical -whose noisy radicalism made him enormously popular in the colonies, called the war “unjust, felonious, and murderous.” The Americans, he …
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More Amazing Passages From Rick Atkinson’s “The British Are Coming”. This Time, It’s About Gambling.
Here Atkinson discusses the problem of drunkeness, fighting, licentious behavior and gambling. Gambling was a big problem to Colonial Generals. “It also gambled without guilt. …
