Peter Oliver Quotes
It is said by the rebels at Roxbury that Col. Watson has given his quota to support the people.
Oliver, Peter. Letter to Thomas Hutchinson. The Diary and Letters of His Excellency Thomas Hutchinson, Esq., edited by Peter Orlando Hutchinson, vol. 1, Sampson Low, Marston, Searle & Rivington, 1883.
Most Canadians supported the English despite the letter.
Lee although born in England was one of the most ardent of the patriots fighiting the British. This oath was even considered extreme at the time. He was considered a super hawk by Washington and others. He became the Senior Major General and if anything had happened to Washington he would have command. He was an extremist who thought himself far more militarily qualified than Washington. See {59589} and {55885} for two of his slights against Washington.
Christie was a Tory—a British supporter, but what he did that was so offensive was that he had requested that British Troops come to Maryland to control the rebellion.
The Spartacist Group was the German Bolshevik organization led by Karl Liebknecht and Rosa Luxemburg. They were both killed by right-wing death squads shortly thereafter.
Song traditionally sung at the end of British Labour Party meetings
Cortes had just been released from Federal Prison pursuant to a clemency agreement whereby he renounced violence. He had been jailed for illegal F.A.I.N. activities.
Ultranationalist Secret Organization. Unlike the Italian Black hand for whom it was named, the Serbs were not interested in money. The were a right wing death squad that assassinated all who opposed a single, unitary, Serbian nation. Dimitrijevic was executed in 1917.
Brant had an English style Missionary education and was an Anglican, belonging to the Church of England. During the American Revolution, he persuaded most of the Iroquois tribes to fight for the British against the revolutionary colonists. However, the Oneida tribe was not persuaded and joined the rebel side. A few New England Presbyterian missionaries had targeted the Oneida people, and when that tribe chose the “wrong” side, Brant believed that the reason was their different religious point of view. After the Revolution, Brant and his Iroquois followers were driven out of their American lands and escaped to Canada, while the Oneida were given complete title to their lands by George Washington.
These failure of these secession opponents to influence most Southerners was one of the great tragedies of the war. William Tecumseh Sherman also counseled against the rebellion {627900}. Identity of many Americans at the time was defined by their State with less identification with the nation than today. Eggleston was an accomplished writer who had served in the Confederate army of the Civil War. 20 year after the war he wrote a series of articles for the prestigious Northern Atlantic Monthly trying to convey the war from the Southerner’s point of view.
