Thank you for the detailed historical perspective. Interesting that events that occurred hundreds of years ago still hold so much meaning today.
I’ve made a point of trying to highlight US and colonial history that is little known, since joining FR. Some of it just got lost over time, some of it was deliberately concealed due to the biases of the era, and some of it was a deliberate snub.
Lack of recognition of the Regulator War in NC, as the earliest shots fired in the Revolution, is but one example. A George Washington quote, referring to the region of NC he was travelling through at the time, as “Regulator country,” is the source of my screen name. The bizarre omission of Jamestown in our national founding mythos is another.
Truth is good. It also sheds much light upon certain modern circumstances, that make little sense otherwise. What’s that old quote about the past not really being past? It certainly applies.