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Question- How rebellious were the settlers at this point toward the British crown rule? I felt that in the struggle between the British crown and the settlers, the mention of tyranny may have been a bit premature (at least to my knowledge on the topic), but I did like that there was a pre-revolution sense of injustice among the settlers. Was this premature or accurate for the time? - Elle Weaver | Question- How rebellious were the settlers at this point toward the British crown rule? I felt that in the struggle between the British crown and the settlers, the mention of tyranny may have been a bit premature (at least to my knowledge on the topic), but I did like that there was a pre-revolution sense of injustice among the settlers. Was this premature or accurate for the time? - Elle Weaver | ||
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| + | Remember that the British officers were condescending toward the colonial militia. It's not just the militiamen talking about the British tyranny that indicates the struggle. First, when Duncan (Phelps?)tells Munro that the militiamen negotiated terms of service in the war, Munro responds something to the effect that that was just like them--the colonials think they can set their own terms. And then, when Nathaniel is trying to tell Munro that the militiamen's families are either threatened or being killed, and they should be allowed to go back to defend, Munro says that they can't go (they'd be shot if they did), because, essentially, that the threatened families are trivial in comparison to the army's objectives. He obviously sees himself/the army/the British in general as superior to them, and couldn't care less about these men's families. This attitude is easy to recognize, and caps off the injustice. But I think at that point the settlers wanted fair treatment and mainly hoped or believed that relations could still be mended with the mother country. -Whitney Holcomb | ||
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