applesanity
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If you want to gain appreciation for the American revolution, I would suggest you go spend an hour in England. That's about all it took for me.
Irrelevant. England now is not England of 200+ years ago.
If you want to gain appreciation for the American revolution, I would suggest you go spend an hour in England. That's about all it took for me.
So , we have what the Founders SAID was their motivation, and we have what they DID, and they match like key to lock.
Moreover, when several had elected power in the new government, none kept it beyond the time alloted; none began a coup, started a putsch, or did the normal for power and wealth-driven individuals.
Irrelevant. England now is not England of 200+ years ago.
For instance, they did away with the monarchy and they don't tax anything anymore.
Washington himself suffered so much physical deprivation and suffering and psychological anguish during the war, it is likely a desire for more wealth in an already enormously wealthy man was not his motivation. Power-driven people don't go thru winters in tents living with hundreds of starving men,
while close by hover thousands who may at any time put a bullet in their heads. They get someone ELSE to do that.
As to plagarism, at the time plagarism was an accepted technique and considered flattery
So when do we get to the Masonic conspiracy to create the US?
Applesanity, your arrogance is breathtaking.
Washington himself suffered so much physical deprivation and suffering and psychological anguish during the war, it is likely a desire for more wealth in an already enormously wealthy man was not his motivation. Power-driven people don't go thru winters in tents living with hundreds of starving men, while close by hover thousands who may at any time put a bullet in their heads.
This is the building that General Washington used ... at Valley Forge.
That statement didn't get much notice but it cuts to the chase. While it's great to be patriotic, when it's given as a reason to die it leaves a queasy feeling since recent facts prove otherwise. On the other hand, maybe it's the best way to put lipstick on a pig.The military keeps us safe from foreign aggression, but with all due respect to the troops, they do NOT protect our freedom;
It seems many of the worst stories on that list may be more fiction than fact.
should have pitched his own tent with his men and froze to death [...] with frostbite fingers and frozen toes.
Gen. Geo. Washington"We have this day no less than 2,873 men in camp, unfit for duty because they are barefooted and otherwise naked."