Saturday, March 15, 2014

A somewhat inflammatory discussion of the...American Revolution!

Firstly, for the last thing I would wish to do is subjugate the reader to the assumption that I am a portion of that band, I declare, although I am not altogether the most linear of personages, I am not a hipster. While I take an alternate perspective in some respects, nope. It is with that intelligence that I proceed to something known as. . .
The American War of Independence!
There are a great many thing available for ranting fodder! I'll endeavor to brainwash alter the reader's perspective on that, eh?
Contrary to many a popular culture, George the III really wasn't that awful of a guy; His mother Augusta frequently chastised him for un-regal behavior when he was a child with the adage: "George, be a king!" As he progressed to his majority, it seems that some of this had a not-so-great effect on his self-esteem, and, also, inflated his head a little bit. In a nutshell, he is on the list of monarchs that really shouldn't have been a monarch (e.g. King Nicholas Romanov, Edward VII, Marie Antoinette and her spouse Louis the something-th oh-yes-sixteenth).
In fact, those upstart 'Mericans were most irked by forcing themselves not to drink outrageously priced tea. The horror! My poor nerves!
Nevertheless, so, George? His infamous "madness" was correctly variegate porphyria, an illness that he suffered from after the Revolution. Incidentally.
(Also interestingly this was the instability that Lady Arbella Stuart, a possible heir to the English crown during the latter years of Queen Elizabeth I's reign, may have suffered from. However, as, if at all, these people were related it would have been infinitesimally so - sundry cousins fractured the line of descent between them - and maybe it was a coincidence.)

Onto the next rantiness! The Sons of Liberty, the final bastion of freedom in the Christian World! And...also the people who rarely joined the Revolution as headed by George Washington (more on that fine person later. That isn't sarcasm!), and the personages who tarred-and-feathered innocents simply to get back at the British. Hoo-ray, fine gents.
Tarring-and-feathering was an inhumane practice in which the ill-starred man or woman would have burning-hot tar poured over them, then be covered in feathers. One man, a customs officer named John Malcom, would be dragged from his family of five and subjected to that treatment, while being pulled on a sledge through Boston, on a freezing night. (N.B. He also appeared to be proud of that incidence, although that hurt to his family is unpardonable. He also was mocking, baiting, and boasting to the revolutionaries earlier, basically spurring them on!)

Plus, when you consider the Americans were partially stroked up on account of being disallowed settlement across the Appalachian Mountains due to a treaty with the Native Americans between them and the English, it's more irksome! (Cite: David McCullough's 1776. It's ignominious to consider this writing being doubted to the point of necessitating citations, but I shan't be too curmudgeonly!)

Aforementioned, I happen to take an...inclement view of American history, chiefly because of the invasion of Native American nations. In some portion that may result in slightly irked writing. I apologize for being inflammatory; again, not a hipster, but I resolved it was high time you upstarts learned of those other upstarts the Americans Rebels!

Ah, yes, requisite dissertation. Interestingly enough, Thomas Gage (or General Charles Lee, or William Howe; I embarrassingly forget), an English general, fought with one George Washington in the French and Indian Wars of North America.

Merci beaucoup for reading this post!

Upstart Bloggess,

Anacostia Mirabow-Marignac!

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