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From: mmt@dciem.UUCP (Martin Taylor)
Newsgroups: can.politics
Subject: Re: Re: Canadian participation in Star Wars.
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Date: Wed, 26-Jun-85 16:32:40 EDT
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>> 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
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