Our First Civil War: Patriots and Loyalists in the American Revolution - H. W. Brands
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What causes people to forsake their country and take arms against it? What prompts their neighbors, hardly distinguishable in station or success, to defend that country against the rebels? That is the question H. W. Brands answers in his powerful new history of the American Revolution.
George Washington and Benjamin Franklin were the unlikeliest of rebels. Washington in the 1770s stood at the apex of Virginia society. Franklin was more successful still, having risen from humble origins to world fame. John Adams might have seemed a more obvious candidate for rebellion, being of cantankerous temperament. Even so, he revered the law. Yet all three men became rebels against the British Empire that fostered their success.
Others in the same circle of family and friends chose differently. William Franklin might have been expected to join his father, Benjamin, in rebellion but remained loyal to the British. So did Thomas Hutchinson, a royal governor and friend of the Franklins, and Joseph Galloway, an early challenger to the Crown. They soon heard themselves denounced as traitors–for not having betrayed the country where they grew up. Native Americans and the enslaved were also forced to choose sides as civil war broke out around them.
After the Revolution, the Patriots were cast as heroes and founding fathers while the Loyalists were relegated to bit parts best forgotten. Our First Civil War reminds us that before America could win its revolution against Britain, the Patriots had to win a bitter civil war against family, neighbors, and friends.
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This post has 5 comments with rating of 5/5
December 4th, 2021
Yes! We’re called Canadians, we’re polite about it, but we’re through being ticked off yet.
December 4th, 2021
Yes! We’re called Canadians, we’re polite about it, but we’re NOT through being ticked off yet. (Always read it before you submit a Comment)
December 4th, 2021
Christmas dinner would’ve been dashed awks round chez Franklin. Many Loyalists relocated to the evil imperial mothership, or to the more deferential land of the polite Canuck. Native Americans & the enslaved would’ve been well within their (absence of) rights to say “Phck all y’all” to the unrespective parties.
December 4th, 2021
American Revolution = French vs British proxy war.
Without the French it’s just a revolt that would have been put down & the leaders executed. Father George hung from a tree like a criminal.
Independence was going to come to the US no matter what, just a little later. Canadians did not have to go to war against the crown for their independence, Nor did Australia or New Zealand.
December 4th, 2021
Actual independence? Who is the head of state in those countries?
In similar news, Barbados ceased being infantalised in such a manner this week.
Wars involve complex interests & motives. Diverse participants may unite & form alliances based on complex reasons. This isn’t that incisive an observation.
We can’t take the measure of involved history by simple-mindedly observing, “Well, they shouldn’t have done that, because of subsequent developments many years later.” Columbus could’ve deferred exploration until satellite navigation was fully available. Hindsight bias gives license to lazy stupidity.
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