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To: mnehring
You raise an interesting point---one that my friend Dave Dougherty has been making to me for a few weeks---that in many ways the American Revolution was a Scots-Irish revolution against the Brits. Almost 1/3 of the generals and top officers were Scots Irish, and New England was actually disproportionately NOT as well represented as a % of population.

I knew some incidents of burning churches happened, but I hadn't put two and two together.

34 posted on 08/28/2010 8:30:07 AM PDT by LS ("Castles made of sand, fall in the sea . . . eventually." (Hendrix))
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To: LS
James Webb pointed that out in his book "Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America"
80 posted on 08/28/2010 11:08:36 AM PDT by SuziQ
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