Ugh I had forgotten the "hireling and slave" line in the anthem
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Yeah the War of 1812 was the Brits telling escaped slaves and Natives "This is your big chance if you help us" followed by "nah peace out"
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Replying to @arthur_affect
The British did that a lot in their New World wars actually
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Replying to @arthur_affect
But yeah look up the Colonial Marines (not the ones from Aliens)
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Basically the Brits were pissed off and wanted to punish the Americans but didn't care enough to spend the resources to defeat us
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Replying to @arthur_affect
We've always disliked the French more than you guys. Hence the seemingly weird priorities.
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Replying to @LevelTwoRogue @arthur_affect
"Cling to the most valuable colonial asset outside India" or "Bayonet a few more Frogs", we take the channel hop every time.
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there's a convo abt if the Revolution was really inevitable if Pitt the Elder hadn't fallen ill
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Replying to @arthur_affect
It would have happened sometime. The slavery obsession would have become a deal breaker eventually.
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Replying to @LevelTwoRogue
the American Revolution 100 years later as the Civil War
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leading, perhaps, to a United States of Canada vs Jesusland situation
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Replying to @arthur_affect
Hard not to look at US history and think how it might have happened in nicer ways. E.g. The Giant Friendly Canada scenario.
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Replying to @LevelTwoRogue
it wasn't good for our country that our founding myth is a big heroic cleansing war
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