On 2 January Chris Green wrote of Benjamin Franklin: >Yeah, well, he also said that one of the primary aims of the American >revolution (one that doesn't get much coverage in the Official National >Mythology) was to drive the French Catholics and "Indians" (as they were >then called) out of the Ohio River Valley (which had been ceded to them >in the Quebec Act of 1774) so that they could be replaced by good white >protestant men like himself.
My recollection of those revolutionary times is that Franklin's concern was that they were *French*, not that they were catholics. Franklin's concern was revolutionary America's interests as he saw them, and earlier on he had been happy to form an alliance *with* the French in order to defeat the Brits. Allen Esterson Former lecturer, Science Department Southwark College, London http://www.esterson.org/ --- To make changes to your subscription go to: http://acsun.frostburg.edu/cgi-bin/lyris.pl?enter=tips&text_mode=0&lang=english
