Posts Tagged ‘British’
The Winter Patriots: A Revolutionary War Tale
A Conquering Wind… For more than a year 13 colonies stood in rebellion to their government an ocean away. The Americans in revolt were rebels, the Declaration of Independence made them revolutionaries. Thirteen colonies were now a union of states, then in union they claimed independence, disseminating copies of their great declaration in the…
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What did the colonists eat? Everything you could imagine!! Every village had a market day where wagons rolled in from the farms bearing all kinds of produce and foods, pigs, cows, geese, and chickens. The Dutch, the Germans, the French, the Finnish, the Irish, the British, the Native Indians, the slaves brought everything from hot…
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