Re: CHAT: "have a Canadian day"

John Cowan wrote:
>
> Robert Hailman scripsit:
>
> > My sentiments exactly. I wouldn't really consider the War of American
> > Independance a world war, though, because in the strictest sense it was
> > an internal affair, Britian preventing the colonists from becoming
> > independant.  I'm sure other people wouldn't see it that way, as its
> > taking the concept of internal affairs to the extreme.
>
> But in 1777 France and the Dutch Republic declared war on Britain also.
> That made the "internal affair" a genuine multi-continent war.
>
> --
> John Cowan                                   cowan@ccil.org
>        I am a member of a civilization. --David Brin

And let us not forget that the American Revolution was the first of
what have been called the Atlantic Revolutions as a whole series of
nations in Europe and both of the Americas declared their independence
or threw off monarchist governments over the next 30-40 years.
--
Brad Coon
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If its tourist season, why can't we shoot them?