Revolution Article

5 things learned from article:

1. The upper class Bostonians "...wanted to tame the memory of Boston's Revolution" to prevent the laborers from getting ideas of the Revolutionary patriots and causing riots among the working class.
2. The French did not play as much as an important part as most had suspected. They were not the deciding factor of the war.
3. After the war, surprisingly Washington created no dates to be remembered or praised the soldiers of the Revolutionary War.
4. The signing of Declaration of Independence and the Constitutional Convention are the two most written about events in American history, overlooking the actual war and battles of the Revolution.
5. The British and the Americas fought no more than about hindered feet from each other in the Revolutionary war because of their weapons. This ended up causing mass casualties.