[snippy_about_it]

Thanks Mud. Time for me to turn in also.

[Iris7]

I see that General Mercer was a man of class, a good soldier, and with a firm grip on right and wrong. Exactly what you expect from a Jacobite.

Another famous Revolutionary War Jacobite was the father of the United States Navy, John Paul Jones (not his real name - he used the pseudonym to protect his family in Scotland from interrogation, confiscation, and proscription.)

I speculate that if by some miracle the young Charles Edward Stuart had prevailed over George the Second in 1745 then George III would and could not have pushed the American Colonies into rebellion. He would have lacked the prestige to force the issue on the Whigs and Edmund Burke after Scotland's successful succession.

Marxists are wrong about history being inevitable.