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I love the man that can smile in trouble that can gather strength from distress and grow brave by reflection.

Tis the business of little minds to shrink, but he whose heart is firm and whose conscience approves his conduct will pursue his principles unto death.

Thomas Payne The Many factors contributed to an upstart confederation of colonies in America rebelling against their mother country Great Britain.

Among these were strict trade laws, most of which were not rigidly enforced at first, crown appointed governors whom the

colonists came to despise, and the fact that they were obviously Englishmen who just wanted

to be treated like damned Englishmen and weren't.

Enjoying about as many rights as a red-headed stepchild,

the colonist's disdain for British government finally boiled over

when they were taxed to pay for the French and Indian War between 1757 and 1763.

Now that's amazing because I would have thought that that war would be between the French

and the Indians.

You'd be wrong, sir.

The cost to expel the French from encroaching on the colonies had ballooned the British

national debt from 72.3 million pounds to 129.6 million, which is equivalent to around

16.5 billion pounds today. And London politicians had decided to levy taxation without anyone to represent a voice for the colonies in Parliament.

A colonist cannot make a button, a horseshoe, or a hobnail, and some snootly iron monger a respectable buttonmaker

of England shaball and squall that he is most egregiously maltreated, injured, cheated, robbed by the rascally American Republicans. treated and

robbed by the rascally American Republicans.

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