Great Post!
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I’d also like to think that Divine Providence had his hand upon it.
An article that inspires! Happy Fourth to all.
May all who wish us ill will inside and out enjoy watching us celebrate the greatest country on earth
I think our revolution was exceptional because there was less “pressure due to proximity” between the two sides.
We didn’t exactly threaten London or the monarchy, so it wasn’t a “fight to the death” for the Brits, and thus it made them more open to ending hostilities instead of ramping it up for reasons of self-preservation. At most they lost colonies thousands of miles away, not their heads.
“3. Unlike the Russian, French, or English Revolutions, the Revolutionary War never underwent an extremely violent phase, glutted with beheadings and torture.”
No...but there were instances of retribution against Loyalists, including having their property confiscated without compensation even though part of the Treaty of Paris was supposed to have this all resolved peacefully.
Not exactly “extremely violent”, but you couldn’t ask for a better outcome, I suppose.
Good morning.
I disagree partiality with number 3. The British tortured, extorted and hung many patriots.
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Its especially satisfying to note our destructive former President is out of country this 4th.
It really wasn’t a revolution. The colonies were not trying to start a new govenrnment. They merely wanted to maintain the self-government they had enjoyed for the previous 150 or so years. Opposite of other revolutions.
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Appalled by the French revolution, Edmund Burke on our revolution:
https://almostchosenpeople.wordpress.com/2009/12/17/edmund-burke-and-the-american-revolution/
The English—-they’ll always do the right thing, after trying everything else.
The election of businessman Donald Trump underscores that we are indeed a very unique nation in that ordinary people can still send one of their own to the presidency and sock it to the established order.
We have much to be thankful for this Independence Day.
Great Post!
Revolution requires a turning-over of society and its whole leadership from one group to another. The Bolsheviks, the Castros, and the French produced revolutions.
The American experience in 1776 was much more like the attempted secession of the South a century later, except that the latter was an unsuccessful one.
And the one thing this author did not mention, but was the foundational reason for the success of our Revolutionary War and the only reason our country has lasted as long as it has, is that the country had turned to God, recognized His Sovereignty over their lives, and given their lives to Him during The Great Awakening. As a result, they recognized that their rights did not come from man, and especially not from government, but from God Almighty Himself.
Finally, the same all-powerful Hand of God that saved those sinners during that time-frame of our country, is still alive and well today; still possessing the same abilities to change men’s hearts and lives, and still desirous of performing same.
He will do the same if we seek his face together.
Join me my FRiends in praying for the souls of our countrymen, that God will save their souls and turn back his terrible wrath that we so richly deserve because of the sinful behavior of our country.
This is the only thing that will successfully change our country.
Without this, even a bloody war will not bring the change we so dearly desire.
Freemasonry played a part as well. Masonic lodges were formed in the colonies. British Naval and Military Masonic lodges arrived with the troops. The interaction of Colonial and British Freemasons in Masonic lodges made the war more personal and civil. This may be why the British were less ruthless in their tactics. When the Spanish sent an armada to help the colonists, the British attacked and didn’t leave a mast standing. When battles with the colonists ended, there was usually a clean break and less pursuit by the British.
This point was made by Ann Coulter in denomic
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Another big difference is due to England’s prior laissez-faire governance, the American colonies had 150 years of experience with self-government. Prior to the founding of the United States of America, the people answered to the government. To this day, there is no other nation except Israel where it is understood that the people run the government, not the reverse.
In the past century, the central government has been steadily eating away at that liberty, and we are now on track to restore it.
That is what President Trump means when he talks about the rigged system. He’s said repeatedly that he intends to restore power to the people. With our help, I believe he can.
Happy Independence Day!!!
Certainly, but did they know that they were exceptional? Or did they consider that their revolution could be a model for other countries? Or did they even care about such things?
And was there a bad side to "American Exceptionalism"? Our neighbors to the south saw the abolition of slavery as part of the movement for national independence, and we didn't.
