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Revlutionary War
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MouseMadness
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Er, thanks for the info! *thumbs* :lookaroun 
:lol:
:lol:
Figment1986
Well-Known Member
nice bunny with a pancake,
I dont get this thread.
I dont get this thread.
wdwhoneymooner
Well-Known Member
Nooooo! Don't tell me the historians are all wrong......including School House Rocks?
The shot hear around the world
the start of the Revolution.
The Minutemen were ready on the move
Take your powder
Take your gun
Report to General Washington.....
Man, I miss 'em on Saturday mornings on ABC.
The shot hear around the world
the start of the Revolution.
The Minutemen were ready on the move
Take your powder
Take your gun
Report to General Washington.....
Man, I miss 'em on Saturday mornings on ABC.
Figment1986
Well-Known Member
now i get the conection, where did this information start?
I remember school house rock. Have the DVDs
I remember school house rock. Have the DVDs
imagineer boy
Well-Known Member
STOP IT! PLEASE STOP! The Horror.....
( j/k ):lol:
MouseMadness
Well-Known Member
So apparently this isn't going to be explained? :veryconfu I"d like to know when history was rewritten... World Book Encyclopedia, for one, has a very different opinion on the beginning of the war. :lookaroun
On June 8th, 1772, a group of Rhode Islanders ran aground, boarded, and destroyed the Gaspee', a British ship that was sent to Narragansett Bay to enforce the tax laws. There was a VERY brief exchange of gunfire (one injury) so it was TECHNICALLY the first shot fired in the Revolutionary War.
"Now for to find these people out
King George has offered very stout,
One thousand pounds to find out one
That wounded William Duddingston. (commander of the Gaspee')
In May, 1774, the town of Providence passed a resolution, the first of it's kind PASSED in any colony, favoring a congress of representatives of the colonies for establishing a union against the power of Great Britain.
They also wanted this same group to enact a law banning the importation of slaves into the colonies, and that existing slaves should be freed after attaining a certain age.
THIS particular version of history was written in 1886.
"Now for to find these people out
King George has offered very stout,
One thousand pounds to find out one
That wounded William Duddingston. (commander of the Gaspee')
In May, 1774, the town of Providence passed a resolution, the first of it's kind PASSED in any colony, favoring a congress of representatives of the colonies for establishing a union against the power of Great Britain.
They also wanted this same group to enact a law banning the importation of slaves into the colonies, and that existing slaves should be freed after attaining a certain age.
THIS particular version of history was written in 1886.
MouseMadness
Well-Known Member
I always love to learn something new. 
Now, why is it that this isn't recognized as the beginning of the war? (I'm by no means debating here,just asking. I'm very bad at history. Love to hear about it, but in no way can I remember it.)
Now, why is it that this isn't recognized as the beginning of the war? (I'm by no means debating here,just asking. I'm very bad at history. Love to hear about it, but in no way can I remember it.)
:lol:
barnum42
New Member
Where some of the historical inaccuracies came from
I read with interest Bill Bryon’s book “Made in America”, where he points out many of the myths exaggerations and inaccuracies that have crept into the telling of the whole War of Independence.
One of the rallying cries - “Taxation without representation is tyranny” – even in Britain only one in twenty people had a vote. James Otis was credited as creating the phrase, but probably never did. Someone else hung that credit on him in 1820 – nearly forty years after his death.
The taxes were not large – one fiftieth of that paid by the residents of Britain. The taxes were used to fund defence of the colonies.
Patrick Henry is credited with making a rousing defiant speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses in May 1765. However there is no record of it in the notes made by the Clerk of the convention nor in correspondence from anyone else present. One document was found in 1921 that mentions intemperate remarks, but they were followed by an apology and a declaration of loyalty to the King.
William Wirt is responsible for fabricating what ended in many history books about Henry - fourteen years after Henry’s death. He had never seen, heard or spoke to Henry. Thomas Jefferson (who was there) had a low opinion of Wirt’s book. Henry’s most famous quote “give me liberty or give me death” was another myth. Apparently he was a bit of a country bumpkin and not at all eloquent.
The Boston Massacre – Paul Revere’s engraving shows Redcoats gunning down citizens in broad daylight. In reality the incident happened at night where twenty redcoats were repeatedly taunted, jostled, pelted with stones and other missiles and generally menaced by a drunken, ugly and much larger crowd. Five colonists did loose their lives, but the circumstances were such that John Adams had no hesitation in representing the soldiers in court, securing acquittals for all but two. It was his brother Sam Adams who twisted the facts to suit propaganda.
It is for this engraving the Paul Revere was known until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the inaccurate poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” that his current place is history was created.
If this sort of thing interests you, seek out the book. It’s a good read.
I read with interest Bill Bryon’s book “Made in America”, where he points out many of the myths exaggerations and inaccuracies that have crept into the telling of the whole War of Independence.
One of the rallying cries - “Taxation without representation is tyranny” – even in Britain only one in twenty people had a vote. James Otis was credited as creating the phrase, but probably never did. Someone else hung that credit on him in 1820 – nearly forty years after his death.
The taxes were not large – one fiftieth of that paid by the residents of Britain. The taxes were used to fund defence of the colonies.
Patrick Henry is credited with making a rousing defiant speech in the Virginia House of Burgesses in May 1765. However there is no record of it in the notes made by the Clerk of the convention nor in correspondence from anyone else present. One document was found in 1921 that mentions intemperate remarks, but they were followed by an apology and a declaration of loyalty to the King.
William Wirt is responsible for fabricating what ended in many history books about Henry - fourteen years after Henry’s death. He had never seen, heard or spoke to Henry. Thomas Jefferson (who was there) had a low opinion of Wirt’s book. Henry’s most famous quote “give me liberty or give me death” was another myth. Apparently he was a bit of a country bumpkin and not at all eloquent.
The Boston Massacre – Paul Revere’s engraving shows Redcoats gunning down citizens in broad daylight. In reality the incident happened at night where twenty redcoats were repeatedly taunted, jostled, pelted with stones and other missiles and generally menaced by a drunken, ugly and much larger crowd. Five colonists did loose their lives, but the circumstances were such that John Adams had no hesitation in representing the soldiers in court, securing acquittals for all but two. It was his brother Sam Adams who twisted the facts to suit propaganda.
It is for this engraving the Paul Revere was known until Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote the inaccurate poem “Paul Revere’s Ride” that his current place is history was created.
If this sort of thing interests you, seek out the book. It’s a good read.
imagineer99
New Member
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