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I live in the hometown of the Suffolk Resolves (Milton, Massachusetts), and, no, New Englanders dont usually consider much outside of New England in founding history.
The popular history of the Revolution, according to a New Englander is:
-The Boston Massacre
-Tea Party, somewhere along the way
-Lexington & Concord
-Victory at Bunker Hill!
-Somewhere along the way the British left Boston
-The Declaration
-Six years of nothing happening [maybe Saratoga, if you're talking to a Vermonter -- whoops, the New Hampshire Grants]
-I guess the French finally showed up for Yorktown, and then we won!
Savannah, New York, Momouth, the Cowpens, Guilford Courthouse, etc., never happened in popular knowledge.
Nor, too, the Salem Alarm, the Siege of Boston (won without a shot) the batlle of Groton Heights, Newport, the invasion of Maine, etc.
Apr 1, 2008, 10:32:00 PM
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