[flaglady47]

We revolutionaries were tough cookies back then. Wonder if we can muster the same in any future days of tyranny.

[Pharmboy]

Indeed we were. What these letters continue to illustrate is that the Brits just could not figure out what we were so mad about. They looked upon us as second-class citizens and felt we should be pleased with that.

It should be remembered that Washington, as a Colonel in the Virginia Militia, smoldered about the way he was treated by the Brits during the French and Indian War. He even traveled to Boston from VA in the winter of 1756 to complain to the Brit General Shirley.