5 Things Learned from "Rethinking the Revolution" by John Ferling
John Ferling
- In post-revolution Boston, the emergent elite was confronted with a growing labor movement, and tried to downplay the role of the working class in protests against the Stamp Act and in the Boston Tea Party.
- As time went on, the war was remembered for symbols and rebellion, not the actual battles that took place which misleads many people about the nature of the war.
- Historians wrote a lot about the revolution itself, as well as the Constitutional Convention, but skipped over the actual war which conveyed that it wasn't as important.
- Conditions in the war were so bad at one point that the Continental Army tried to make soup out of shoes.
- There was about a 50/50 chance that a Continental soldier would survive captivity during the war, though the odds of dying in battle were closer to 1/10.
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