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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: Re: [BRE] 11 names
Date: Tue, 16 Oct 2007 08:39:00 -0400
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Dates:
Boston Tea Party - Dec 13, 1773 - a year before the Declaration of
Independence -at the start of the Revolution
was against English Taxation - of a drink sent to the Americas
Whiskey Rebellion - August 1794 - Army marched west to Bedford PA and
adjacent areas
-10 years after the Revolution -5 years after the Constitution
was against American Taxation - of a drink made in the Americas

Merle C Rummel

> Didn't the Colonies fight the Revolution successfully more because of The
> Whiskey Rebellion than Boston Tea Party? From the mountains here where the
> revenooers were going after the moonlighters, we had German-Americans,
> Irish-Americans, Welsh-Americans, etc. who fought with Washington from the start to the
> finish.
>

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