Quote Originally Posted by Tellos Athenaios View Post
@rvg: rose tinted glassses?
Re: George Washington look at his track record when he still lead British troops against the American Indians. Not particularly awe inspiring that one.
What's wrong with it?

Re: equality: places such as Manchester paid more in taxes and had if possible even less representation for the ordinary folk. Parliament in those days didn't mean that because you paid taxes you were somehow able to influence an MP. The representatives of then would make the current crop of Congress critters blush.
Doesn't matter. The point is that the colonists were treated like second class citizens and they didn't like it one bit.

American Independence was ostensibly about "no taxation without representation" but in the same manner the Dutch ostensibly fought for "religious freedom" in the 16th century. The difference being that American Independence was fought over in a time of newspapers and public sympathy rooting for the Americans.
We didn't fight for publicity. Publicity was the result of our struggle, not the cause of it.