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This is CBSI on the world.

I'm John Bachelor of Professor Joseph Ellis.

New book is The Cause, the American Revolution, and is discontents.

How the participants thought about the conflict over eight years, beginning, well, you can date it from 75 from Lexington Concord,

but you can also date it from 73 in the Tea Party. Cornwallis, George Cornwallis, who wins some pointless battles, taking pointless towns, comes up against something that was always critical to the success of the American

rebellion.

That is, that there were sympathies everywhere throughout the colonies for defying the crown.

And, Professor, did Germain understand that?

Did George the third understand it that no defeat of Washington's army or Green's army was going to defeat the colonies?

I don't think they ever fully grasped the depth of the commitment at the ground level.

And from the beginning of the, even before the declaration, these committees

were functioning at the town level, committees of safety and inspection, enforcing commitment to

the cause. And essentially, it politicized the entire backcountry and countryside. And what it did was meant

you could not remain neutral. I would think that 40% were for the cause, about 20% were

against it, and 40% in the middle wanted it to just go away.

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