“The Colonial Rebellion”. It reminds me that the winners write the history books. What we learned as being called the French and Indian Wars, English speaking Canada and Europeans know as the Seven Years War fought on both the European continent and rival colonies in North America. Last year while in Quebec City, I asked a native French …
“The Colonial Rebellion”. It reminds me that the winners write the history books. What we learned as being called the French and Indian Wars, English speaking Canada and Europeans know as the Seven Years War fought on both the European continent and rival colonies in North America. Last year while in Quebec City, I asked a native French Canadian speaking employee of Parks Canada what the decedents of France North America called the war (which they came out the losers). Looking around not to be overheard by any fellow employees or supervisors, he responded “The War of Conquest”.
So true. That's exactly the type of phrase that would have been used.
When I wrote Restive Souls, which is the genesis for all this, I did a lot of research. The Colonials were truly on the ropes when Washington took Trenton (made famous by the Delaware crossing).
Service time for many American troops was expiring. They had few provisions. Washington had recently been routed from New York. Things looked grim. He needed a victory, any victory, to keep hope alive. In Restive Souls, he doesn't get it. He's captured instead.
Would the Brits really have emancipated the slaves? Doubtful, but they did promise, through Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, manumission to any slave who fought for the Brits. Some historians insist that the proclamation angered Colonials who were not particularly interested in the war, which had about a 50/50 approval rating or something like that (the precise number eludes me). The proclamation turned sentiment solidly in favor of revolution. It could be argued that the Revolutionary War was America's first civil war over slavery.
“The Colonial Rebellion”. It reminds me that the winners write the history books. What we learned as being called the French and Indian Wars, English speaking Canada and Europeans know as the Seven Years War fought on both the European continent and rival colonies in North America. Last year while in Quebec City, I asked a native French Canadian speaking employee of Parks Canada what the decedents of France North America called the war (which they came out the losers). Looking around not to be overheard by any fellow employees or supervisors, he responded “The War of Conquest”.
So true. That's exactly the type of phrase that would have been used.
When I wrote Restive Souls, which is the genesis for all this, I did a lot of research. The Colonials were truly on the ropes when Washington took Trenton (made famous by the Delaware crossing).
Service time for many American troops was expiring. They had few provisions. Washington had recently been routed from New York. Things looked grim. He needed a victory, any victory, to keep hope alive. In Restive Souls, he doesn't get it. He's captured instead.
Would the Brits really have emancipated the slaves? Doubtful, but they did promise, through Lord Dunmore's Proclamation, manumission to any slave who fought for the Brits. Some historians insist that the proclamation angered Colonials who were not particularly interested in the war, which had about a 50/50 approval rating or something like that (the precise number eludes me). The proclamation turned sentiment solidly in favor of revolution. It could be argued that the Revolutionary War was America's first civil war over slavery.