Just watched the movie "The Patriot," and out of curiosity looked up a British view of

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3. french & indian war

Hi,

The French & Indian war, The Seven years war to the British, was the basic cause for our Revolution. This war was in reality a Global conflict & really the First world war. After the war was over, The Crown was for the most part Broke & the British citizens were not happy to be paying more taxes for a war that had ended. The Brits looked for new sources of income & of course looked to the American colonies. A reasonable attitude since many battles had been fought in America, pay your own way.

The crown, like all good keepers of Empire had been using the American colonies as a source for raw materials and the colonist taxes were very low if they paid anything at all. The colonist thought the Crown was asking far too much & one thing led to another & the war broke out. Obvious there is much more in the narrative & that is the wonderful thing about history, finding the truth.

Hollywood does not care to show the truth about history. Mel Gibson is a right wing Repugnent & most of his films are just Propaganda.

The first man to die in the revolution at the Boston massacre was a black man & John Adams was the lawyer for the British soldiers. I was never taught that in school from elementary to college.