As an exercise, read about the Overmountain men that banded together in 1780 to cross from East Tennessee into North and South Carolina and fight and win the Battle of Kings Mountain. It was this British defeat that turned the tide of the Revolution by seriously eroding General Cornwallis’ force.
The Americans were pretty much all Scotch Presbyterians fed up with the British burning of churches and killing people. To this day, the population in East Tennessee and Southwest Virginia have Scotch roots.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overmountain_Men
Oh, I know the story. I devour any history about the Scots and Ulster Scots in North America.
‘Do not call this an American Revolution. It is a Scotch Presbyterian revolution’
—British politician 1783.