Re: Revolutions

["Keith Howe" <kkhowe@moscow.com>]

> Gee, and my public school education taught me the American Revolution was
> primarily due to taxation without representation.  Furthermore, that a
great
> number of the fathers of this country were men of land and wealth.  I
should
> have been home schooled.

They were men of land and wealth who generally enlisted armies from the
%40-%50 of the population that was poor and struggling, with the promise of
a better, richer future for them than what they faced under British rule...
the leaders may have been wealthy, but the masses dying in the fields were
poor...

 - Keith Howe