Thursday, September 2 · 2010
Preamble
Our independence came from an 8-year war against the greatest empire on earth. Like any insurgency, it’d keep going until England ran out of patience, since properly “winning” would take an army (we didn’t have one), a navy (we didn’t have one), and cash (we didn’t have any). As such, we really had no right — outside of American gumption — to win, but win it we did. So with the expectations flipped that dramatically, I’d say don’t believe the paintings of that scene — instead, it probably felt like the end of every ’80s movie where the ragtag nerdlingers and dweebs finally pull one over on the snobby jocks.
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