re: Message from King George to The Colonies

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From King George to the Founding Fathers:

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You'll be back!

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Our Founding Fathers pledged their lives, fortunes and sacred honor so that all of us could live a life free of tyranny.

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Only to have a generation of purple haired wiccans and gays doing tgeir damndest to hand it all back to tyrants

King Charles changed the wording in à declaration to the church of England and added unity for the Muslims.

Sounds tyrannical.

Like Biden.

The Brits were actually relieved that the new nation was at least colonized by the English. Years before that there was a real possibility Spain was gonna take over the place like they had done further south. That sure would have changed history a LOT.

Read Thomas Anburey's diary. He was a British officer who got captured and sent to Virginia (where prisoners were held). He explains a lot of the goings on. Basically, British officers were traded for American officers who had been captured. After surrender, the Brits simply went back home.

He tells a lot of anecdotes about the colonies that are interesting. Being an officer, he had "parole" meaning he could roam freely. He hung out with American military officers and tells a lot of anecdotes about some of them. (Some of them he didn't like, some he did). He never met Washington, even though he said he wanted to. (He met several of Washington's close aides).

He and other British officers stayed in American homes at a farm or plantation. They paid the owner rent. He said the man he stayed with was always drunk off "toddys" and would often wonder off to attend cock fights or horse races. His wife would have to send slaves out to find him when he was too drunk to make it home.

One of his fellow British officers was kidnapped by some backwoods dudes who took him to their house and threatened to kill him because one of them believed he was banging his wife. They took him on horseback to a cliff where they were going to throw him off. On the way there, the British guy escaped and was able to make it back to the American camp.

There were Germans (Hessians) fighting with the Brits. He said the German-Americans would come visit them in prison camps and they would be speaking German with each other. Then the Hessians would escape and presumably go live with them. He said the American prison camp guards didn't care and didn't try to hunt them down. Anburey might not have been aware at the time, but the Americans had been trying to get the Germans to desert and even passed out flyers promising them freedom and 50 acres of land if they did desert the British forces. This is probably why the Americans didn't try to "hunt them down" after they "escaped." (Some of them probably did really escape with no "deal" made, but even then it was not worth the effort to find them).

It is estimated that 30,000 Germans came over to fight for the Brits (that was 1/3rd of the entire British force). It is also estimated that between 5-6 thousand of them stayed in America after the war.

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We will never see their like again. Sadly.

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You are so right.These men risked their lives, their fortunes, and the lives of their families to liberate this great nation. The men in DC are afraid to vote for what is right because they don't want to risk not being reelected and losing donations.

I have read it, or I believe I have. The Germans were hired guns, and many did stay in the USA.

The Brits hated the weather of New England as it was brutal cold in winter and hot in Summer.