In the first place Britian wasn't "protecting" the colonies, they could protect themselves as they had been doing for years without the help of the british against the frontier Indians and, as for the French, they were all through many years before and, were more or less allies by now, the history book didn't have to tell us that.
And, Fairness to pay taxes to king George? the taxes were two thirds of what a person made. That's right, a caner making three chairs owed King George two chairs, a brewer that made three barells of beer owed King George two barells. This is where the Boston tea party came in.
A simple farmer had to camp out several of the Kings men and feed them, whether he had enough to feed his family or not, he was required to feed them and bed them, that was the law. When they left, it was usually with some of the farmers livestock also, the history books don't tell you that either, do they?
A farmer in the winter months came near starving with his family but, that didn't matter to the British, he could be charge with subversion if he didn't comply, whether he could or not, he had to, even at the risk of his family.
The British were cruel Task masters, they had a cruel distaste for the Colonies for leaving England and setting up shop, you could say, in the coloies, away from "the motherland"
So, yes, there is a lot the history books don't tell, like the hundreds of Colony prisoners of war taken and put aboard prison ships off the harbor in Boston, to teach them a lesson, in the winter, and, simply forgotten, months later when the crying for help stopped, the ship was towed to sea and sank. This was the cruelty of the British toward the Colonists.
Books were never written about the cuelty of the colonists from the British, it's forgotten now. But, to remember our freedom and how we got it, we must remember how we got it and who won it for us, "Lest we forget" it's funny but, the great man who coined that phrase, Sir Winston Churchill, was British.
2007-09-26 21:33:50
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answered by cowboydoc 7
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The strategy of the Revolutionary War? It was the wealthy in the colonies that revolted. The poor wanted England to win because they said that if the colonies were to become independent, the wealthy would tax them to death. The Boston Tea Party were a group of rich people who didn't want to pay taxes- sounds familiar? It was only fair that Britain taxed the colonies since Britain was sending over troops to protect the colonists from the French and Spanish colonies at the expensive of the average citizen living in Britain. U.S. history books usually don't tell you that. They skim the surface of the truth and sometimes omit it. Once you ask questions about these events do you found out that there was more to what you are reading than the author wants you to know. Regardless, we're still in the greatest nation on the planet.
2007-09-27 01:47:58
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answered by Terrence B 7
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