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To: Sam Gamgee
I think you are right about the Tories having a majority at the time in Parliament. The people called Tories in America would mostly have been considered Whigs in Britain in the period 1765-1775.

There were a few friends of the colonists who spoke out on their behalf...Edmund Burke is a good example. But even they drew the line on independence and did not think the Americans were justified in throwing off allegiance to the king...although they honored their ancestors who had done the same thing in 1688.

Parliament as a whole seemed to have the attitude that the colonists were children who had to do what the adults told them to do.

63 posted on 04/28/2016 3:11:44 PM PDT by Verginius Rufus
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To: Verginius Rufus

It gets confusing because a large portion of those Tories were real Tories, shown by the fact they fled for Canada. Though the scale of that has been exaggerated. The effect on Canada was huge though, even if most Canadians don’t realize, they are motivated largely by Tory sympathies, which may explain some of the hostility towards America.


66 posted on 04/28/2016 3:16:22 PM PDT by Sam Gamgee
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