I have never sworn an oath to the British crown but if I started aiding a foreign government to subvert my own I would be committing treason, allegiance is taken as read without the need for an oath or pledge (although some nations endorse/enforce these things on natural born citizens).
American Revolution Spreads to Britain
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I have never sworn an oath to the British crown but if I started aiding a foreign government to subvert my own I would be committing treason, allegiance is taken as read without the need for an oath or pledge (although some nations endorse/enforce these things on natural born citizens).
Thande
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Individual Americans, especially revolutionary thinkers, were respected in Europe - Franklin was arguably probably the way that many people in eighteenth century Europe became aware of the American colonies.
But the idea of the colonies claiming to be an independent state...you can see the contempt with which this was treated in contemporary and Revolutionary France, and to some extent it persists today: remember Dominique de Villepin's dismissal of the US as 'having no history' in 2003, and the modern European (particularly French) attitude of treating the US and Britain collectively as 'the Anglo-Saxons' and effectively considering them as the same state. The balance of power has shifted from Britain to the US, but you get the impression that a lot of people don't actually separate the two in their minds. That eighteenth century image of 'some slightly wayward Englishmen' persists across large parts of the world.
67th Tigers
Banned
Which bout of treason would that be?
Arnold certainly would be a better choice.
Aye, but he repented and rejoined the lawful American government forces ;-)
"We don't do republics"
"But if we did, they'd probably be the best republics in the world."
Sorry, couldn't resist a Carlsbergism there
Sargon
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