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To: donmeaker

Hey Bud, I have a clue. You get one. After the war, British sympathizers that couldn’t get comfortable with the idea of not being subjects of the King were forced into Canada, kapich? Your history has some expanding to do.


18 posted on 03/05/2008 7:22:33 PM PST by yldstrk (My heros have always been cowboys--Reagan and Bush)
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To: yldstrk

Actually, they were rarely forced, but were free to go. Ben Frankin’s son went. Many British merchants continued to come to the US to do business. Some stayed. Others went home. Ships left almost every day for England, or arrived almost every day from England.

Exception!~ Many Iroquois tribesmen (some of which are my ancestors) who had attacked settlements in supposed support of British policy were driven out by Sullivan’s punitive rate. Many others were able to stay, to include the famous “Red Jacket” and “Handsome Lake”.


82 posted on 03/06/2008 8:26:08 PM PST by donmeaker (You may not be interested in War but War is interested in you.)
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