![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() It was strange because while men were dying, whole towns being burned to the ground, women being raped, captured spies and traitors being executed, the official posture of what called itself “The United Colonies of North America” remained abiding loyalty to the British Crown.Whether the American colonists were living a lie, an illusion, or a calculated procrastination is a good question. It was consequential because the rationale for American independence and the political agenda for an independent American republic first became explicit at this time. Chapter One: The YearIf permitted the historical license to stretch the definition of a year, then the fifteen months between the shots fired at Lexington and Concord in April of 1775 and the adoption of the Declaration of Independence in July of 1776 can justifiably claim to be both the most consequential and the strangest year in American history. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |