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NorthernGent -> RE: Brtitish History as Ametica understands it ? (4/3/2011 3:30:12 AM)
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ORIGINAL: MrRodgers
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ORIGINAL: slvemike4u
Interestingly,one of the signers,who by the measure I have put forth ,could be considered a "Founding Father" later repudiated the document ,betraying his pledge made to each other with "our Lives,our Fortune and our Sacred Honor"...Richard Stockton of New Jersey
Five signers in all were captured by the British...only Stockton made such an ignoble deal.None of them ,by any report ,were tortured or subject to "special" treatment from their British captors.
What any of this has to do with British history is tenuous at best,ceptin that at the time the two histories do sort of intersect [:D]
The ultimate David and Goliath of all revolutions...an upstart bunch of ragtag shoe-clerks and rednecks kicked the worlds super power out of her prized colony ? I'd say that is a very big moment in British history.
It is not regarded as a big moment, here. Most people here don't realise that Britain was at war with the United States at some point in her history. Put simply, it isn't taught in schools because the Napoleonic Wars was the major event in that period of history, one which defined Britain's position in relation to Europe (i.e. Europe came to be seen as an area of despotism and one to be avoided unless it directly threatened British interests), and one which lead to a period of sustained economic growth and fiscal conservatism from a position of a huge national debt and very near bankrupcy.
The United States was never the 'jewel in the crown', that was reserved for Australia and India at different points. I suppose the US was not indispensable as seen by the limited weight of force the British threw into the fight, whereas other areas of the world were deemed to be of greater importance to British interests.
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