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To: lowbridge

What percentage of Colonists fought the British?


5 posted on 09/20/2016 5:15:39 AM PDT by oblomov (We have passed the point where "law," properly speaking, has any further application. - C. Thomas)
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To: oblomov

Excellent point !!!


14 posted on 09/20/2016 5:22:00 AM PDT by Mollypitcher1 (I have not yet begun to fight....John Paul Jones)
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To: oblomov

About the same amount.


35 posted on 09/20/2016 5:36:00 AM PDT by ripnbang ("An armed man is a citizen, an unarmed man a subject)
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To: oblomov

My great x4 grandfather and his 4 brothers did (more than any family in his county)- after hearing Patrick Henry’s speech in St. John’s church - they lived not far from him in Hanover County, VA - I have a copy of his 1832 Revolutionary War Pension Application where he explains it all.

I was born in FL, grew up in Indiana, lived all over the country - and only found this out 3 years after I moved within 20 miles of where he lived.....I just “came home....”


48 posted on 09/20/2016 5:50:44 AM PDT by Arlis
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To: oblomov

“What percentage of Colonists fought the British?”

3%

...and today’s 3% are equipped a whole lot better.


50 posted on 09/20/2016 5:51:30 AM PDT by ctdonath2 ("If anyone will not listen to your words, shake the dust from your feet and leave them." - Jesus)
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