The Richards wrote:
>
> >You've got to be pretty distressed to be surrendering, but distress it is.
> Since only
> >the Brits knew which way up it went, only the Brits knew it was upside
> down. So when
> >all those ungrateful colonials started getting uppity one could call for
> >re-inforcements without them knowing.
>
> Paul,
> Seeing as how things turned out. . .gotta wonder just how many Brits
> actually knew which side was up, eh? :-)
>
> Michael, New Bern, NC (where in Lord Tryon was nice enough to leave a palace
> before heading to New York).
More then than now, for sure.
PaulH.
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