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ProfessorPlum

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3. You're right

Reply to annabanana (Reply #2)

Wed May 25, 2016, 08:31 AM

May 2016

there's an entire book (ok, a third of a book) just devoted to how corrupt and stupid Parliament was about the colonies, and how easily the relationship could have been saved and strengthened. Barbara Tuchman's "The March of Folly". How different life in these parts would have been.

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The Revolution was fought against Corporations! The FFs were anti-corporatists [View all] ProfessorPlum May 2016 OP

self-kick. ProfessorPlum May 2016 #1

History is important. annabanana May 2016 #2

You're right ProfessorPlum May 2016 #3

kickerooni . . . . .n/t annabanana May 2016 #4

At first I did not understand what you were saying but you jwirr May 2016 #5

K&R your account of US History is correct Jeffersons Ghost May 2016 #6

That's certainly what the Boston Tea Party was about. The Revolution wasn't that simple, tho' Bucky May 2016 #7

thank you for the additional details. ProfessorPlum May 2016 #8