Re: Help design the ideal Presidential candidate

Nate Edel <archmage@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> Moreover, the British resorted to the use of force first, and before
> Independence was even (at least formally) on the table.

I thought which side fired "the shot heard round the world" was still
in dispute.

If you're referring to the Boston Massacre, that was several years
before the revolution began.

> ... and instead proceeded unilaterally to sieze federal property
> before Lincoln was even inaugurated.

The way I always heard it, the federal government had agreed to
evacuate Fort Sumter, but then attempted to surreptitiously reinforce
and resupply the fort.  South Carolina's government took the attempt
as evidence of bad faith, and opened fire to prevent the fort from
being reinforced and resupplied.
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