September 6, 1775: Washington Appeals Directly to Canadians

The Second Continental Congress tried appealing to the Canadian leadership in order to get support for the Independence cause, but they apparently weren’t biting. So George Washington tried a different tack: write to the Canadian people themselves. He reasoned that the folks in charge were mostly wealthy landowners who were doing all right financially under […] The post September 6, 1775: Washington Appeals Directly to Canadians appeared first on 250 and Counting.