The earliest period of US history has been so mythologized that it is sometimes hard to get a grip on what life was actually like during this time. As longtime Listverse readers know, whatever you learned in school about it probably won’t be much help. So, just in time for Independence Day, let’s take a look at the American Revolution. You probably thought of this period as a time in which a bunch of scrappy underdogs with ideals and practices of political and social decorum rose up to defeat their oppressors. As with most aspects of history, this conception is both true and untrue in ways that are surprising, fascinating, fascinatingly surprising, and surprisingly fascinating. (Comment below if we’re missing any adjectives.)
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Listverse comes up with tons of interesting stuff over time. Since this author has a "funny" name, take whatever he says that you don't like with a grain of salt ;-)
Amidst the bright hot weather of July, I'm thinking back often to the summer vacations of my youth in the historical quadrangle of tidewater Virginia. (A triangle to most, yep -- don't know why they leave out gorgeous 467-year-old Gloucester.)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosewell_(plantation)