[Cronos]

Nah, Tyndale had no influence on the American revolution -- you do know that tyndale was there just about the time Columbus set sail and quite a while before American independence (btw, you were taught the old one "in 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, right?

Oh, and you do know that we've been independent for about 200 odd years, right?

[.45 Long Colt]

I’m a lawyer, but I also have an M.A. in history. I’ve studied Tyndale extensively. The impact of his work cannot be denied. More than 80% of the text of the King James came straight from Tyndale’s translation and his translation was the major influence on the Geneva Bible, which was the Bible used by the American Puritans and the Pilgrims.

On another note, most of the more than 1,000 Scripture references found in Shakespeare derived from Tyndale’s work. “Without Tyndale, no Shakespeare” is a popular cliché among historians.