19 Random Facts About The American Revolution I Recently Learned That Are Supposedly "Often Forgotten"

As a idiosyncratic who derives a batch of fulfillment from learning astir history, it's seldom that I spot a past treatment I don't instrumentality a infinitesimal to larn much from. So, erstwhile I saw this post connected the fashionable Ask History forum wherein idiosyncratic BLOODMEN71 asked, "What [are] the astir forgotten aspects of the American Revolution?" I wanted to spot what radical had to accidental successful response. The answers were beauteous interesting, and I thought I would share.

Here are immoderate of the champion answers:

1. "The warfare was a multi-national conflict, and it progressive a batch of antithetic factions, and not simply 'patriots" and 'redcoats.'"

4. "One atrocity was the tarring and feathering of guiltless clerks/postal employees successful Boston simply due to the fact that they worked for the crown. I ever consciousness atrocious for those guys."

6. "I deliberation it's worthy remembering that a ample conception of the colonisation was inactive pro-crown. We thin to deliberation the warfare was universally embraced, similar WWII."

7. "When the warfare ended, the British fleet evacuated with a important fig of African Americans who had fled slavery and assisted the British. Half the fleet went to Nova Scotia, wherever those African Americans were allowed to found settlements. The different fractional of the fleet went to Jamaica, wherever the British sold African American allies backmost into slavery."

8. "Canadian perspective: galore Loyalists fled to Canada with stories of atrocities committed by Patriots. Certainly, the tarring and feathering was real. The descendants of the Loyalists became the United Empire Loyalists, which utilized to beryllium our equivalent of Mayflower ancestry."

9. "In 1774, Virginia's section authorities was dissolved by its royally appointed governor. That's what led to the famous, 'Give maine Liberty oregon springiness maine Death' code from Patrick Henry. It's besides wherefore it was delivered successful a religion alternatively of a authorities building."

10. "I grew up successful Rhode Island. Every year, we observe the burning of HMS Gaspee by burning an effigy of it. The HMS Gaspee was a customs schooner, collecting dues and enforcing navigation laws astir Newport, Rhode Island. In 1772, it was chasing a tiny smuggling vessel disconnected the seashore adjacent Warwick erstwhile it ran aground. The smuggler vessel instantly pulled astir and attacked the Gaspee, burning it down to the waterline. It was 1 of the archetypal attacks recorded by British colonists against the crown. That's wherefore I emotion my location authorities and its pettiness. Even 200-plus years later, we're inactive burning down their ships. As a fun fact, 1 of those smugglers was John Brown, who later, on with his brothers, founded Brown University successful Providence, Rhode Island."

12. "Almost 100,000 loyalists left the US aft the revolution, though much stayed."

13. "The Annapolis Tea Party. Annapolis citizens were truthful incensed astatine Anthony Stewart for paying the beverage taxation for his vessel afloat of tea, that they made him acceptable occurrence to the vessel (called Peggy Stewart)."

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14. "Something that usually gets overlooked is the robust assemblage press. The Coercive Acts, a bid of 4 laws passed by the British Parliament to punish Massachusetts Bay for the Boston Tea Party, targeted the residents of Boston and Massachusetts astir exclusively. Yet, acknowledgment successful large portion to the results of respective effectual connection networks and sympathetic sum successful the assemblage press, readers beyond Boston began to beryllium convinced that they had a idiosyncratic involvement successful what was going connected there. Most importantly, Americans successful each of the colonies began to judge that the radical of Boston were suffering connected their behalf."

15. "I kinda consciousness similar the origin of the Boston Massacre is papered implicit a bit. It wasn’t conscionable that radical were 'tired of those darn redcoats,' it was a absorption to the British Army killing a child, and it was the evening aft his ceremonial procession done town."

16. "The Pine Tree Riot. In New Hampshire, a Sheriff and lawman attempted to enforce a instrumentality that restricted lumbering of achromatic conifer to sphere its usage for the Royal Navy. They were beaten astir to decease by a mob."

17. "Without French support, Americans apt would person mislaid that war."

18. "Baron Von Steuben, a Prussian service officer, helped Washington bid and modernize the militia into a warring army. He returned home, was hated, came backmost to the US, was presented with citizenship by Congress, and lived retired his days successful honor."

19. And finally: "Many of the men who signed the declaration did truthful without the enactment of their constituents. William Floyd is simply a distant comparative of mine, and helium represented the HEAVILY loyalist Long Island but signed the declaration careless due to the fact that helium felt self-determination was amended for his constituents successful the agelong run. He faced decease threats, his spot being attacked and utilized by the British arsenic a base, etc. Being 1 of the wealthiest signers, helium adjacent gave his lands and possessions up successful an effort to money the warfare effort."

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