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Apparently the Brits couldn't pay for the French and Indiana war, socut
to preclude more expenses they decreed there be no more westward
expansion.
joe
Joseph J. Bellina, Jr. Ph.D.
Professor of Physics
Saint Mary's College
Notre Dame, IN 46556
On May 14, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:
I'll add a little left politics here.
And it took about fifty years for me to learn an important reason
(importance, I suppose, debatable.) for the revolutionary war was so
the settlers could take more land, etc. from the Natives. England
had drawn a line the settlers were not to cross**. The much vaunted
freedom was the freedom to expropriate Native land and resources.
(What else is new?)
** http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Royal_Proclamation_of_1763
bc agrees w/ John; much U.S. history is very inconvenient.
p.s. George was "actually" a rather bad general, at least initially
-- "we" won the war because there were more French than Settlers at Yorktown. He was, as John wrote, politically astute. More
recently, the Soviets had, essentially, won the war before D-Day.