Thank you for the Post. I’m forwarding it to our (grown) kids.
Bump for later reading....after we celebrate our nation
Happy July 4th to all Freepers.
We just celebrated our way through hamburgers, hot dogs, cole slaw, potato salad and a good old American apple pie.
26 copies of the DOI survive ...
is that 2 for each of the original colonies?
He left out the VOLUNTEERS!!
How many thousands of VOLUNTEERS not in militias nor in the Continental Army were there?
1775 Concord: “The whole country was by this time alarmed The minute men, volunteers and militia assembled from all quarters and posted themselves
The History of the Origin, Progress, and Termination of the .American War,” Stedman, C. 1794, Volume 1,pp.117-118
“At this time there was a company of VOLUNTEERS [my caps] from Charleston [NH] with Stark under the command of Captain Abel Walker, which was embraced in Colonel Hobart`s reginment, which, we have reason to believe, did good service in the Battle of Bennington, which followed a few days after.” – Saunderson, p.109
VOLUNTEERS of NH fight at Battle of Saratoga - Saunderson, p.119
NH Volunteers before Battle of Bennington, Saunderson, p.439
-“History of Charlestown, New Hampshire: The Old No. 4, Embracing the Part ...”
By Henry Hamilton Saunderson
THE BATTLE OF KING`S MOUNTAIN PROVES THAT THE “HARDY REPUBLICANS’ VOLUNTEERS
– “The History of the American Revolution”, Volume 2
By David Ramsay 1793, pp175-6.
“A squad, or small company of volunteers, was also formed in East Concord, in consequence of a rumor that the British intended to destroy the United States seventy-four gun ship Washington, then on the stocks at Kittery, Maine.” -
Bouton, “History of Concord”p349
And now we live under a government infinitely more tyrannical than George III. He was a wild-eyed libertarian compared to what we live under today. Taxes? No comparison. Taxation with representation is not what it’s cracked up to be.
The Founding Fathers would be so ashamed.
And now we live under a government infinitely more tyrannical than George III. He was a wild-eyed libertarian compared to what we live under today. Taxes? No comparison. Taxation with representation is not what it’s cracked up to be.
The Founding Fathers would be so ashamed.