This Day in History: February 15

From Halifax, Canada, on this day in 1776, Governor Francis Legge reports to British headquarters in London that traitorous elements in Cumberland, Nova Scotia, have contacted American General George Washington. Washington received a letter from the Nova Scotians, in which they expressed their sympathy for the American cause, on February 8. They invited General Washington and the Continental Army to invade Nova Scotia at his earliest possible convenience.

One man's traitor is another man's patriot. My favorite line from Errol Flynn's "Robin Hood" is when someone (Basil Rathbone as Guy of Gisbourne, as I recall) shouts "You speak treason!" and he responds "Fluently."

If the choice is supporting unalienable rights or tyrant rulers, I'll side with the "traitors" every time.