revolutionary war
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It was an early example of Americans’ resentment of English tyranny, presaging the anger that would erupt into the Revolutionary War in the next century.
According to Ms. Vaill, he revealed his identity to Angelica, by then pregnant with their fourth child, only after he had made a fortune as a Revolutionary War profiteer and settled his debts.
“We follow a wonderfully outspoken, profane, absolutely ordinary, but very eloquent guy who fights the war as a very young man, named John Greenwood,” says Ward, describing him as something of a Revolutionary War Forrest Gump, though more intelligent.
From Los Angeles Times
Simply agreeing with America’s core principles, he said, is both overinclusive and underinclusive—overinclusive in that many foreigners may agree with the principles but aren’t Americans, and underinclusive in that such a definition would reject many people the Anti-Defamation League “would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.”
But experts caution that the military is not trained to keep law and order, and that the country has a strong tradition against domestic deployments dating to the Revolutionary War.
From Los Angeles Times
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