Posted on 10/07/2021 9:28:13 AM PDT by Jim Robinson
Many sincere Christians have confused, conflicting, and convoluted notions about what became the War for Independence or, as some call it, the Revolutionary War. However, it was not a revolution but a war of self-defense, and that fact is seldom discussed in America’s classrooms. When the pertinent facts are known, Americans will have no embarrassment over our “rebel” past.
The Stamp Act of 1765 was a power grab by King George III whereby various publications and legal forms in America would require a stamp (tax) before they could be issued. The colonialists resented the act as being taxation without representation. That same year Virginia’s Patrick Henry weighed in with his speech advocating “no taxation without representation.” England repealed the act the following year.
Things simmered for a while, then came the 1770 Townshend Acts, a tax on goods imported from England. Citizens in Boston protested, resulting in the Boston Massacre where five Americans were killed.
Americans saw a pattern of King George III making a point that he could demand taxes without any input from those being taxed. Colonists erupted in 1773 with the Boston Tea Party when 150 colonists, dressed as Mohawk Indians, dumped the newly arrived tea into the harbor at Boston. There would be no tax on that tea!
The year 1775 was a pivotal year for the colonists. Late night on April 18, Paul Revere and William Dawes saddled up for their famous midnight ride to Lexington and Concord to warn the locals that the British were approaching to take the guns and ammunition stored there. (Gun control was an issue even back then!)...
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Received the above via email. The title caught my eye. Don’t know why.
“...it was not a revolution but a war of self-defense...”
It’s a good point. Something to remember and keep in mind.
Thanks for providing that historical context!
A “Declaration of Independence” and the war that followed is not a rebellion? Nonsense. And what is wrong with a rebellion in the first place?
......America’s War for Independence Was Not Revolution or Rebellion, But Resistance to Tyranny!.....
Actually, it was all of the above!!!!
Sometimes revolution and rebellion are necessary to combat tyranny!
God bless our founding fathers who made this revolution!!!!
Washington in ‘24!
Resistance to tyranny...Absolutely was....
Through revolution/rebellion... Absolutely was...
Unfortunately, "resistance to tyranny" has become obsolete and extinct in the current bastardized version of America...
Except for the "F Joe Biden" mantra, most Americans have been thoroughly trained to sheepishly:
Bow down!... Obey!... Snitch!...
Having studied multiple civil wars I think the American Revolution, once it got going, was more of a civil war than the 1860s Late Unpleasantness.
Makes for an fun discussion
C’mon Jim.
Thirteen colonies under various forms of royal governance cast off monarchy and formed representative republics.
Then, thirteen years later, they formed a federal umbrella republic.
Subjects became citizens.
THAT was revolution!
“But what do we mean by the American Revolution?
Do we mean the American war with Britain?
The Revolution was effected before the war ever commenced.
The Revolution was in the minds and hearts of the people;
a change in their sentiments; of their duties and obligations.
That was the real American Revolution.”
~ John Adams 1818
I grew up during a time when this was taught in schools, more detailed in high school than junior high.
I also learned a little more by dating a guy from Boston, but this article has filled in a lot of details.
Thanks for posting it, Jim!
‘Face
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