The Revolutionary War Wasn't Necessary
A Treatise on American Aggression Throughout its History as a Nation
(also, a reference to today's circumstances as a nation, and to this holiday)
The colonies did not enjoy the best of all worlds in the late 1700s, but did the colonists have to wage war? Was that the viable solution? Was war the answer? Was this not an impertinent and irresponsible act against a stable government? Was the British Empire that evil? Didn't they provide stability and a systematic form of rule? Couldn't they have negotiated a better solution by peaceable means?
Not all the colonists were of English origin, but couldn't the Dutch and the others suffer this formality under a benign monarchy? Was the British king that despotic?
The French and Indian War of an earlier generation had kept the Franks at bay, as well many of the savage tribes of natives across the eastern seabord and into the continental interior. Hadn't there been enough war and brutality?
Sure, many of the royal taxes and tarriffs were unfa...
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