1 posted on
10/29/2009 8:24:44 PM PDT by
Ravnagora
To: Pharmboy
2 posted on
10/29/2009 8:26:12 PM PDT by
rdl6989
(January 20, 2013 The end of an error.)
To: Ravnagora
Maybe they will keep better records for the American revolution coming up.
3 posted on
10/29/2009 8:27:21 PM PDT by
Patrick1
(I'm not calling in sick; I'm calling in gone!)
To: Ravnagora
Thomas Fleming is a very good historian. I read his magazine “Chronicles” for several years, until I found out that he thinks “Monarchy” is an acceptable form of government.
Have never looked at another issue of that magazine since then.
4 posted on
10/29/2009 8:34:50 PM PDT by
Texas Fossil
(Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.)
To: Ravnagora
>About a third of Americans opposed the Revolution.
Sounds like today!
7 posted on
10/29/2009 8:45:35 PM PDT by
ROTB
("By any means necessary" is evil. See what God thinks of "rising oceans" in Jeremiah 5:22)
To: Ravnagora
If memory serves me correctly, George Washington was actually the 15th President.
8 posted on
10/29/2009 8:51:12 PM PDT by
mnehring
To: Ravnagora
By 1779, there were more Americans fighting with the British than with Washington! One side of my family comes from Tory stock
Kicked off to Canada after wards - We came back though :)
9 posted on
10/29/2009 8:51:17 PM PDT by
libertarian27
(Land of the FEE, home of the SHAMED)
To: Ravnagora
10 posted on
10/29/2009 8:57:20 PM PDT by
Captain Beyond
(The Hammer of the gods! (Just a cool line from a Led Zep song))
To: Ravnagora
Although some people had issues with any ammount of tax, that isn't enough to start a revolution. The revolution was a principled revolution, fought over the principle of "no taxation without representation" affirmed during the English Civil Wars.
Today, our principle should be "no taxation without limitation" (limited government).
11 posted on
10/29/2009 9:05:34 PM PDT by
In veno, veritas
(Please identify my Ad Hominem attacks. I should be debating ideas.)
To: Ravnagora
>>>more Americans fighting with the British than with Washington
Most disappointingly including Robert Rogers of Rogers Rangers fame. Rogers formed the Queen’s Rangers and later the King’s Rangers, but without the battlefield success of the earlier original Ranger regiment.
12 posted on
10/29/2009 9:45:00 PM PDT by
tlb
To: Ravnagora
>>When he was told that Washington planned to resign his commission, the monarch gasped: “If he does that, sir, he will be the greatest man in the world.”
Gotta love George Washington.
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