Connecticut Goes Fourth–June 14, 1776

It’s not a misspelling; it’s a pun—oh, forget it. Connecticut had already been fighting the war for independence since Bunker Hill, but that’s not the same thing as separating politically from Great Britain. In retrospect, we made it look relatively easy, but once again, remember: something like this hadn’t been done before, and sending instructions to their delegates to vote in favor of Independence was literally directing them to commit an act of treason. So let’s give the individual colonies a little bit of grace, here. Now, New York is going to bump into a different kind of trouble, but we’ll talk about that in a few days. (It was a little bit funny though, right?) The post Connecticut Goes Fourth–June 14, 1776 appeared first on 250 and Counting.