Survey:

Dean Brissinger

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Oct 20, 1994, 11:05:08 AM10/20/94

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Previously, I asked for points of view toward the American
Revolution. Now, I'm looking for more information. To do this, I'm
putting out this survey to the same news groups. Please respond to this
survey with your answers in an E-Mail to bris...@bvsd.k12.co.us and CC
it to cou...@bvsd.k12.co.us.

1) What do you call the American Revolution? Is it another name than
"The American Revolution"?

2) What people of that time period have an importance to you? Why do
they hold significance?

3) What effects could have occured had certian countries not involved
themselves? How would political development be today?

Thankyou in advance for your time. I require a response as soon
as possible.

- Dean B.

Gretchen Adams Bond

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Oct 21, 1994, 12:12:31 AM10/21/94

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What do you call the American Revolution?

I have to admit, although it has almost been embarrassed out of me...I
grew up in New England and my grandfather taught me to call it "The War for
Independence" (he also called the Civil War "The War between the States").
I remember quite a few older people still calling them both by those
names well into the 1970's!

Gretchen Adams Bond
Univ. of Oregon
History Graduate Student(and yes, working on "the War for Independence!"
e-mail: gab...@oregon.uoregon.edu

Dean Brissinger

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Oct 20, 1994, 12:29:20 PM10/20/94

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Sorry I forgot to add this to that last post: If you have any
text's from another point of view (Non_American authors) that you could
send or direct me to, I'd be extremely thankful.

- Dean B.

Chris Gray

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Oct 24, 1994, 7:39:54 AM10/24/94

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In article <38cvat$d...@nic.umass.edu>, e...@twain.ucs.umass.edu (Ed) writes:

| 2: The patriots were not the angels we were all taught they were.
| Look at the Committies of Public Safety and things like the 1775 act to
| exclude (from Massachusetts) "certain notorious tories."

Nowt wrong with that. In fact the Palace of Westminster would benefit
from the exclusion of "certain notorious tories."

Oops, my first posting to soc.culture.french and no ObFrench whatever.
Entschuldiging.
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Chris Gray cg...@btma74.se.bel.alcatel.be Compu$erve: 100065,2102
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Hi cle

Christopher Currie

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Oct 24, 1994, 6:31:42 PM10/24/94

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In article: <Pine.ULT.3.90.941020...@bvsd.k12.co.us> Dean Brissinger

<bris...@bvsd.k12.co.us> writes:
>
> Previously, I asked for points of view toward the American
> Revolution. Now, I'm looking for more information. To do this, I'm
> putting out this survey to the same news groups. Please respond to this
> survey with your answers in an E-Mail to bris...@bvsd.k12.co.us and CC
> it to cou...@bvsd.k12.co.us.

> 2) What people of that time period have an importance to you? Why do
> they hold significance?

Well, without the American Revolution we should not have the Rumford
Grate. That holds significance for me because this desk sits in front of
a disused sub-Rumford grate, which in certain weather conditions blows a
draught round my feet as I type. It is therefore impossible for me to
forget the American Revolution.

In extreme forms of those weather conditions, a lightning conductor
is also desirable, but we should have had that even without the American
Revolution, despite certain popular myths to the contrary.

Another consequence of the American Revolution is that in top-selling Disney
movies (most recently the Lion King) the principal baddy always has a
British accent.

Christopher Currie ccu...@bloxwich.demon.co.uk
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Karen Goertzel

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Oct 25, 1994, 4:30:29 PM10/25/94

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Interestingly, my British friends all call it the American War of Independenca. I've also heard it called the Revolutionary War.

Frank A. Peake

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Oct 26, 1994, 11:06:15 AM10/26/94

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In a previous article, goer...@hfsi.hfsi.com (Karen Goertzel) says:

>Gretchen Adams Bond <GAB...@OREGON.UOREGON.EDU> writes:
>

>Interestingly, my British friends all call it the American War of Independenca. I've also heard it called the Revolutionary War.
>
>KMG
>--
>______________________________________________
>| We are inclined to believe those we do not |
>| know, because they have never deceived us. |
>| -- Samuel Johnson |
>

How about the American secession ?
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hell...@cc.weber.edu

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Oct 20, 1994, 5:40:00 PM10/20/94

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In article <Pine.ULT.3.90.941020...@bvsd.k12.co.us:, Dean Brissinger <bris...@bvsd.k12.co.us: writes...
: Previously, I asked for points of view toward the American

:Revolution. Now, I'm looking for more information. To do this, I'm
:putting out this survey to the same news groups. Please respond to this
:survey with your answers in an E-Mail to bris...@bvsd.k12.co.us and CC
:it to cou...@bvsd.k12.co.us.
:
:1) What do you call the American Revolution? Is it another name than
:"The American Revolution"?

: :
: - Dean B.
:

At the time it was called the Whig Rebellion, even in parts of America.
HME