To: Ditto
P.S. Also, they didn't "rebel". They sent a nice polite, well worded letter to inform the king that they would no longer bend their knee to him. The colonies would have been happy to have never fired the first shot but G.B. decided that the colonies were "rebelling".
117 posted on
07/02/2003 3:26:19 PM PDT by
Blood of Tyrants
(Even if the government took all your earnings, you wouldn’t be, in its eyes, a slave.)
To: Blood of Tyrants
The colonies would have been happy to have never fired the first shot but G.B. decided that the colonies were "rebelling". The Shot Heard Around the World. And who fired the first shot at Fort Sumter? In my neighborhood, if you start a fight, you better damn well be able to finish it.
Spin all you want (typical whining Democrat) the South Slaveocrats caused the problem, initiated the war, and got exactly what they deserved.
And all because Lincoln said he opposed them taking their "property" to any other states. Poor babies.
Tell us Mr. Blood of Tyrants, who were the "Tyrants in that situation?
126 posted on
07/02/2003 8:02:29 PM PDT by
Ditto
To: Blood of Tyrants
P.S. Also, they didn't "rebel". They sent a nice polite, well worded letter to inform the king that they would no longer bend their knee to him. The colonies would have been happy to have never fired the first shot but G.B. decided that the colonies were "rebelling". Lexington and Concord, Bunker Hill and numerous other battles took place in the 15 months before they sent that "nice, polite" note. Washington was already in command of the Colonial Army with 15,000 men under his command. The revolution was in full swing with the British landing the largest expeditionary force in military history in New York as the ink was still drying on the DoI and weeks before the King had ever seen it.
135 posted on
07/03/2003 7:32:34 AM PDT by
Ditto
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