Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.2 9/18/84; site dciem.UUCP Path: utzoo!dciem!mmt From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Newsgroups: can.politics Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars. Message-ID: <1602@dciem.UUCP> Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 16:32:40 EDT Article-I.D.: dciem.1602 Posted: Wed Jun 26 16:32:40 1985 Date-Received: Wed, 26-Jun-85 23:18:39 EDT References: <893@mnetor.UUCP> <5642@utzoo.UUCP> <896@mnetor.UUCP>Reply-To: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor) Organization: D.C.I.E.M., Toronto, Canada Lines: 23 Summary: >> It [the US] was a succesful revolution though, wasn't it? > >Barely. And only because England had bigger worries at the time, and the >US was far from home and not all that valuable. And it's worth remembering >that a significant fraction of the total population then packed its bags >and moved to Canada; their reaction might have been stronger without a >place to go. >-- > Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology The way I heard it, there was a strong segment of public opinion in England supporting the views of the US revolutionaries (and that included the much-maligned King George III). It was largely the bull-headed attitudes of conservative politicians that forced the Americans into revolution, and even after the war began, a lot of the English still supported the revolutionaries. So the English in America were much like the 200-years later Americans in VietNam. -- Martin Taylor {allegra,linus,ihnp4,floyd,ubc-vision}!utzoo!dciem!mmt {uw-beaver,qucis,watmath}!utcsri!dciem!mmt