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Tango01 | 10 Oct 2016 12:26 p.m. PST |
… Massachusetts Soldier Confronts British Society, 1759. "During the 18th century, American colonists found themselves increasingly involved in wars, often imperial ones, spiraling out of European battlefields onto the North American continent. The Seven Years War between France and Great Britain began along the western frontier and spread in 1754. New Englanders eagerly volunteered for expeditions leading to the invasion of French Canada. British and colonial forces succeeded together in capturing the great French fortress of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia in 1758. But as Massachusetts soldier Gibson Clough discovered, the British regular army looked down on the colonial militia. British concepts of discipline and social hierarchy varied significantly from colonial ones, and the war experience began to encourage colonists' conception of themselves as Americans…." More here historymatters.gmu.edu/d/5819 Amicalement Armand |
20thmaine | 10 Oct 2016 4:39 p.m. PST |
Interesting. By coincidence I was listening to this earlier today : link The history of a slave brought from Jamaica to Scotland who successfully sued for his freedom – on the grounds that slavery was already illegal in Britain. |
Tango01 | 11 Oct 2016 11:09 a.m. PST |
Glad you enjoyed it my friend!. (smile) Amicalement Armand
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