I have no idea have many books I have read about the revolution, all I can say is, a lot.

Life, culture were so different back then. It is impossible to put ourselves in their shoes.

Imagine living in Boston back then and you hated seeing redcoats marching through your streets. You hated their guts. You wanted them gone. At that same time you owned a business that relied on trade with England. You had a big decision to make. Remain loyal, join the uprising or sit on the fence and hope things went your way.

In many ways the King tried to bully the Americans into submission, Sound familiar. He put in place taxes, laws, that back fired. Then he sent thousands of soldiers to America thinking the Americans would back down from taking on the most powerful military in the world at that time.

Today, in our world, we are used to taxes and we don't like it. Back then, being taxed on things like tea, sugar, molasses was shocking to the American people.