revolutionary war

It was an early example of Americans’ resentment of English tyranny, presaging the anger that would erupt into the Revolutionary War in the next century.

According to Ms. Vaill, he revealed his identity to Angelica, by then pregnant with their fourth child, only after he had made a fortune as a Revolutionary War profiteer and settled his debts.

Named for Revolutionary War hero Francis Marion, the town’s claim to fame when I lived there was Marion College, a two-year Lutheran women’s college.

“We follow a wonderfully outspoken, profane, absolutely ordinary, but very eloquent guy who fights the war as a very young man, named John Greenwood,” says Ward, describing him as something of a Revolutionary War Forrest Gump, though more intelligent.

Simply agreeing with America’s core principles, he said, is both overinclusive and underinclusive—overinclusive in that many foreigners may agree with the principles but aren’t Americans, and underinclusive in that such a definition would reject many people the Anti-Defamation League “would label as domestic extremists, even though those very Americans had their ancestors fight in the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.”