Reply #43: The revolutionary war is a lot more complex than that [View All]

[nadinbrzezinski]

Given what led to it... yes it was led by elites, but it also came from the botton up, starting with movements in oh New Jersey, where people fought the landed elite to keep their lands forty years before Concord, for example. Yeoman farmers were not the elite.

Just clarifying because history is a lot more complex.

For the record there were seven or eight different movements that in the end preceded the war but radicalized the colonies.