Re: Wish I'd thought of this one.

On Mar 31, 2011, at 2:51 PM, Peter T. Chattaway wrote:

> On Thu, 31 Mar 2011, Johne Cook wrote:
>> Taken in a certain light, the American Revolution was a group of  
>> armed rebels trying to overthrow the government in their land.  
>> Because they won, they were seen as patriots and liberators. If  
>> they lost, they no doubt would have been painted with a far less  
>> flattering brush.
>
> Considering how a number of Americans had to flee to Canada because  
> they were loyal to the King and got tarred-and-feathered for their  
> loyalty, yeah, I'd say that's a fair assessment.  (And of course,  
> while the Revolutionary War may have come to an end in the 1780s,  
> hostilities between the colonies that seceded and the colonies that  
> didn't flared up again in the War of 1812.  And then there were the  
> Fenian raids in the 1860s, when Americans were accused of harbouring  
> Irish terrorists who struck at British forts in Canada from their  
> American base.)

Yes, and many of my ancestors would likely have been wealthy  
landowning Scotsmen in the Carolina's and Virginia instead of fleeing  
to Canada and points west like mine did.

regards,
-Lance


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