"Stephen Harding" wrote in message
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Brian Sharrock wrote:

Slight semantic problem; the loyalists(sic) _were_ British.
They didn't 'side with' the British, they were British, remained
British and refused to follow the rebellious smugglers, slave-owners,
land-owner and lawyer clique into an armed French-funded
insurrection. History _does_ record that they were treated badly
by the revolting colonists.

Mighty big "clique", especially when you add in the artistes,
farmers & others.

Say, what "class" would Franklin belong to any way?

So is this the current Euro spin on the American Revolution?

Just a bunch of criminal, low life types, cajoled by the perfidious
French, into breaking away from "The Empire", where most wanted to
stay?

My, my how the politics of anti-Americanism spins its web.

While lawyers may qualify as "low life types", they don't
automatically go into the "criminal" class. Land-owners
simply do not go in either on that grounds alone.