Wednesday, April 03, 2013

This Day in History: April 3

The Enemy is now professedly carrying on a predatory [War] against us, contrary to the Custom of civilised Nations; a Board of Refugees has been some time sitting at New York upon the Subject of Depredation, and consulting upon the most effectual Methods of plundering the defenceless part of the Inhabitants of the American States; in which they are avowedly authorised & supported by the British King & his Generals. Several private People have lately been robbed, their Houses burned, & their Estates ruined by the Crews of British Ships. Arnold is at this time preparing a great number of flat-bottomed Boats at Portsmouth; notoriously for the Purpose of plundering the Tobacco Warehouses, & the Inhabitants upon the Rivers & Creeks in Virginia & Maryland. [More]
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1 comment:

  1. tjbbpgobIII4/03/2013 3:07 PM

    This has long been the British way of handling insurgents, by using terriorism. Look at the Irish troubles in the 1920's for more on this, or India or anywhere else they've had colonized.

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