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To: Hemingway's Ghost

It’s my observation over the years, learning about history on my own while seeing what’s presented in school (and also in many TV quickie-history shows of the past). Sorry, but it’s true we’re given the impression in schools that the RevWar was mostly “all about” the New England patriots, both in fomenting rebellion and fighting it, and nothing much else happened. Except that the war “ended” (NOT) at Yorktown, which was in VA.


47 posted on 07/09/2007 8:58:25 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel
Sorry, but it’s true we’re given the impression in schools that the RevWar was mostly “all about” the New England patriots, both in fomenting rebellion and fighting it, and nothing much else happened.

I don't see how that could be the case at all, even anecdotally, as the fighting in Massachusetts was done by mid-June of 1775. That's like having the impression that WWII was fought in Hawaii.

48 posted on 07/09/2007 9:37:19 AM PDT by Hemingway's Ghost (Spirit of '75)
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