Irene: Your note asked, “Lawrence, where would you put the insurgents/terrorists of England's colonies in America? Would you brand them as traitors to England or freedom fighters? The greatest military force the world had seen to that time was sent to quell the insurrection. Any comment on that?”
I responded and at considerable length answered every legitimate aspect of your questions. But I see you aren’t happy. You blithely want me to engage in anachronistic invention or speculation about an earlier period. I addressed what the Colonists thought of themselves and what the British thought of the Colonists and what the Colonists thought of the British. One of the worst crimes an historian can commit is to apply modern standards or ideas to an earlier period. While I am not myself an historian, I read a lot of history and have no wish to engage in anachronism.
