{"id":24132,"date":"2019-01-22T09:23:17","date_gmt":"2019-01-22T08:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24132"},"modified":"2019-01-22T09:23:19","modified_gmt":"2019-01-22T08:23:19","slug":"what-really-happened-in-the-american-war-of-independence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/?p=24132","title":{"rendered":"What really happened in the American War of Independence?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>I enjoy reading history books and watching television programmes on history and I recently caught the first segment of BBC Four&#8217;s series <em>&#8220;American History&#8217;s Biggest Fibs With Lucy Worsley&#8221;<\/em> which dealt with the American War of Independence. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I don&#8217;t like the way Worsley feels compelled to dress up in period costume, but she has an interesting take on history which she defines as &#8220;the knitting together of rival interpretations&#8221;.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>So, as regards the War of Independence, she reveals that Paul Revere never made it to Concord, the Liberty Bell wasn&#8217;t rung at the declaration of independence, and George Washington was a slave owner, and explains that the patriots could never have won without the support of the French.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I once read an excellent book on the American War of Independence, from which I learned a lot, and you can read my review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/history2.html#US1\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I enjoy reading history books and watching television programmes on history and I recently caught the first segment of BBC Four&#8217;s series &#8220;American History&#8217;s Biggest Fibs With Lucy Worsley&#8221; which dealt with the American War of Independence. I don&#8217;t like the way Worsley feels compelled to dress up in period costume, but she has an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24132"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24149,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24132\/revisions\/24149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rogerdarlington.me.uk\/nighthawk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}