Jim Farmelant <farmelantj at juno.com> wrote:
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> On Thu, 24 Apr 2003 20:42:36 -0400 Yoshie Furuhashi
> <furuhashi.1 at osu.edu>
> writes:
> > >Brad DeLong wrote:
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> And it should also be noted that following the American
> Revolution,
> at least 100,000 Tories fled the US for Canada, the West
> Indies
> or Britain, many of them leaving because of violence or
> threats
> of violence to their persons and property. Even the
> American
> Revolution, which was relatively sedate as these things
> go,
> was no tea party, to use Mao's phraseology.
>
> Jim F.
>
I don't know how histrorically accurate this is, but the A&E movie about Bennidict Arnold showed that George Washington, when he felt that his troops weren't being loyal, would 'dicipline' them by having his men execute fellow soldiers.... --- Sent from UnionMail Service [http://mail.union.org.za]