RE: How is the American Revolution taught in the UK?
July 12, 2012 at 3:43 pm
(This post was last modified: July 12, 2012 at 3:47 pm by The Grand Nudger.)
(July 12, 2012 at 1:10 pm)downbeatplumb Wrote: A rebellion by some of the LEAST taxed people in the empire over a slight raise in taxes.
The more things change, the more things stay the same.
(Actually it was about the British treaty with the indians that limited expansion into the lush and gold bearing interior, Americans wanted to be free to plunder the land).
After...a very large number of people had struggled to set themselves up in what would have to be compared to the middle of today's Amazon -minus helicopters and other modern trans/comms- which was across a mountain range that was for all intents and purposes impassable....and also filled with not so friendly natives. But hey, whats a treaty stating that you must leave your home and everything you can't carry back into the slums you escaped from enforced by military might and taxation between countrymen?
It's probably better to consider the moments before the American Revolution as the final straw in a long (150ish year history) of getting screwed (not necessarily by the Crown, mind you).
(I wrote a decently long post about that awhile back)
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