[BroJoeK]

the OlLine Rebel: " How dare I suggest “Ameicans” were actually British subjects and thus, rebels!
I was even accused of being pro-British..."

Sorry, FRiend, but like most pro-Confederates, you live in a fantasy world of your own creation.

In fact, as has been pointed out many times on these threads, our Founders well knew they were "revolting", "rebelling", "insurrecting", "invading" and committing "treason" against the British government -- and all those words are mentioned in their Constitution.

For just one item: those words are why, in their Declaration of Independence, Founders "mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

Benjamin Franklin's quip on signing it bears remembering:

"Now we must all hang together, gentlemen, or we shall most assuredly all hang separately."

Nobody on Free Republic ever denies the US Revolutionary War was anything other that what it was -- except, except our pro-Confederates, who wish us to believe is was a mere Sunday's picnic in the park, of no more significance than, oh, say, secession to protect slavery (!).

[the OlLine Rebel]

Sorry, while it doesn’t ALWAYS happen, the last thread I was on is exactly as I stated. People denying that the colonies were really British and thus those subjects were traitors - to Britain.