Lots of NONSENSE and falsehoods in that post. Anyone who has actually studied American history knows that BOSTON and NEW YORK CITY were the hot beds of the American Revolution providing almost all the leadership for its early days.
Ever hear of the BOSTON Tea Party, the BOSTON Massacre, the Sons of Liberty? They were not composed of "country bumpkins". Or John Adams, Samual Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Paul Revere, the Minutemen?
You are aware that most of the fighting in the Revolution occurred in New York State and New Jersey are you not?
It is bad enough when Liberals make up lies about American history but even worse when Conservatives do.
I don't know anything about Boston, but I know that important families in New York were divided in allegiance.
New York City, Brooklyn, and other parts of Long Island had many citizens who supported the British troops. (My husband is annoyed at the way that many New York streets, which were named after early settlers, are still named after them, even though they became Tories).
New Jersey also had many British sympathizers.
"Lots of NONSENSE and falsehoods in that post. Anyone who has actually studied American history knows that BOSTON and NEW YORK CITY were the hot beds of the American Revolution providing almost all the leadership for its early days.
Ever hear of the BOSTON Tea Party, the BOSTON Massacre, the Sons of Liberty? They were not composed of "country bumpkins". Or John Adams, Samual Adams, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, Paul Revere, the Minutemen?
You are aware that most of the fighting in the Revolution occurred in New York State and New Jersey are you not?
It is bad enough when Liberals make up lies about American history but even worse when Conservatives do."
And there are a few bastions of Conservatism in Boston and New York today. And there are Liberals out in Flyover Country. But, by and large, most of the bi-coastal elites live in places like Boston, New York and San Francisco.
But the fact is, MOST Patriots were from the countryside and MOST Loyalists were city-slickers. Of course this isn't a 100% thing.
As for the Boston Massacre, six people died in it, hardly a great urban mass. The minutemen were from Lexington and Concord, country towns. Alexander Hamilton grew up St Croix, a little island in the Carribean. I learned that when I lived on St Croix. John Adams was born in Braintree, which was a country town in the 1700s.
No, I wasn't aware that the Cowpens or Yorktown were in New York or New Jersey.
Actually, Boston was laid siege by New England militias from the countryside. They were joined by George Washington and his Virginians and other Southerners. When Washington retreated to New York after the siege of Boston was lifted, most of the people there were Loyalists and didn't help him.
So no, your points are not valid at all.
Yes. Which makes sense, since 1) the British abandoned Boston and 2) Philadelphia and NYC are only 100 miles apart on each side of New Jersey..