Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

To: AZLiberty

Most of the American Revolutionaries were Brits.


???

Not the ones I know of.

Are you talking about the red coats?


1,536 posted on 06/30/2021 7:25:34 PM PDT by Jane Long (America, Bless God....blessed be the Nation πŸ™πŸ»πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡Έ)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1532 | View Replies ]


To: Jane Long; AZLiberty

I assume he meant of English ancestry.


1,550 posted on 06/30/2021 8:09:28 PM PDT by little jeremiah (Nothing is more important than Truth)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1536 | View Replies ]

To: Jane Long
Me: Most of the American Revolutionaries were Brits.
You: ??? Not the ones I know of. Are you talking about the red coats?

From Wikipedia: "Washington's great-grandfather John Washington immigrated in 1656 from Sulgrave, Northamptonshire, England, to the English colony of Virginia where he accumulated 5,000 acres (2,000 ha) of land, including Little Hunting Creek on the Potomac River. George Washington was born on February 22, 1732, at Popes Creek in Westmoreland County, Virginia,[13] and was the first of six children of Augustine and Mary Ball Washington."

Washington's ancestors came from Britain and he grew up in a British colony. George was a British subject. No different, I'm sure, from a lot of the Loyalists and Red Coats. Washington and friends just decided they had had enough of British rule.

Or are you saying Washington was American before the U.S. existed?

What I meant was that some Brits had the balls to break away and form America. Apparently there are some folks in modern Britain with similar attributes. At the moment, the rebels are more visible there than they are here.

1,555 posted on 06/30/2021 8:22:25 PM PDT by AZLiberty (Awaiting the return of the king -- and I don't mean Elvis.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1536 | View Replies ]

To: Jane Long

They considered themselves English citizens even during the early part of the War.


1,586 posted on 06/30/2021 10:58:40 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Trump will be sworn in under a shower of confetti made from the tattered remains of the Rat Party.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1536 | View Replies ]

To: Jane Long; AZLiberty
>>Most of the American Revolutionaries were Brits.

??? Not the ones I know of. Are you talking about the red coats?

What else would they be...French, German?

(There was no USA yet)

1,610 posted on 07/01/2021 4:15:27 AM PDT by ROCKLOBSTER (Celebrate "Republicans Freed the Slaves Month")
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1536 | View Replies ]

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article


FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson