Maybe some of them were descendants of the right side of the English Civil War. ;-)
“Maybe some of them were descendants of the right side of the English Civil War. ;-)”
Hee hee hee!
“church authority was responsible for calling men to action. Pastors often led the colonists in actual battle...”
When George Rogers Clark showed up the Beedel family men signed on ~ some of them actually having been in combat on the Plains of Abraham.
No doubt a lingering hankering after an earlier America motivated the Cahokia militia in their attack on Fort St.Joseph in Michigan at about the same time ~ they flew the flag of Spain!
Too often people forget that there were many others already here long before the Treaty of London (1604), and this is the only country their descendants got, or that they think about.