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Glen
July 8th, 2005, 08:24 PM
Can anyone tell me about the politics and actions of the Maritimes leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War? What did they think about the rebelling colonies to the South? Why did they stay with the British? What really was going on there? I have had a difficult time discovering anything about the Maritimes and their relations with the other colonies in this time period.
Othniel
July 8th, 2005, 08:29 PM
Reseaching in response to my piece Glen?
Nicole
July 8th, 2005, 08:33 PM
Can anyone tell me about the politics and actions of the Maritimes leading up to and during the American Revolutionary War? What did they think about the rebelling colonies to the South? Why did they stay with the British? What really was going on there? I have had a difficult time discovering anything about the Maritimes and their relations with the other colonies in this time period.
Well, here's a site I found about Nova Scotia during the Revolution... http://odur.let.rug.nl/~usa/E/novascotia/scotiaxx.htm Hopefully it can be some help...
Glen
July 8th, 2005, 09:06 PM
Thanks for the link, Imajin. Anyone else have any information?

Reseaching in response to my piece Glen?

What piece, Oth? This is something I've been wondering about for a while now. What piece did you write?
wkwillis
July 10th, 2005, 05:35 AM
Just as an aside, I believe that a sudden storm wiped out a lot of their fishing boats before the ARW. This might have had an effect on their conduct, but I don't really know if it did, or why.
Killing off a lot of sailors might have removed risktaking individuals from the population, or increased their wages and removed incentives to join a revolutionary movement.
Glen
July 10th, 2005, 07:56 PM
Just as an aside, I believe that a sudden storm wiped out a lot of their fishing boats before the ARW. This might have had an effect on their conduct, but I don't really know if it did, or why.
Killing off a lot of sailors might have removed risktaking individuals from the population, or increased their wages and removed incentives to join a revolutionary movement.

Its an interesting aside. Thanks for the info.
Glen
July 12th, 2005, 01:56 AM
Anyone else have any more information about this?