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From: "Sally Rolls Pavia" <>
Subject: [NEWGEN] Little Known Revolutionary War Facts .. correction to URL
Date: Wed, 15 Jan 2003 11:06:30 -0700


Read more of these fascinating bits at:
http://www.state.deus/facts/ushist/revfacts.htm
SHOULD BE:
http://www.state.de.us/facts/ushist/revfacts.htm

Little Known Revolutionary War Facts

The Americans of 1775 had the highest standard of living and the lowest
taxes in the Western World and the British wanted a piece of the cash flow
and tried to tax the Colonists who resisted violently.

There were two Boston Tea Parties. Everybody knows about the Sons of Liberty
who dumped chests of tea into Boston harbor on December 16, 1773. Fewer know
that the act was repeated on March 7, 1774. The two tea parties cost the
British around $3 million in modern money.

By 1779, there were more Americans fighting with the British than with Gen.
Washington. There were no less than 21 regiments (estimated to total 6500 to
8000 men) of Loyalists in the British Army. Washington reported a field army
of only 3,468. About one-third of Americans opposed the separation from
England.



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