tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post929124881951392296..comments2024-03-14T13:25:20.613-05:00Comments on Boston 1775: What Did Bostonians Start a Revolution for? Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger3125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-56081575226708619312014-12-24T11:21:17.740-05:002014-12-24T11:21:17.740-05:00Why Bostonians started a Revolution. They started...Why Bostonians started a Revolution. They started a Rebellion … Why? Because James Otis Jr and Samuel Adams decide the up-start Thomas Hutchinson needed to be gone. The boys in the Masonic Lodges agreed and the boys at the Green Dragon agreed and thus with defined steps, Samuel Adams devised a cunning plan to ouster the pop-n-jay Acting-governor and that he would receive his comeuppance. Also for Note: The Revolution began when General Washington took command of the army surrounding Boston. (This of course is a personal opinion for all of the above.) Comittee of Correspondencehttp://www.facebook.com/CommitteeofCorrespondence?ref=hlnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-91824724715818206042014-12-23T08:47:01.189-05:002014-12-23T08:47:01.189-05:00To his credit, Nick Bunker doesn't say that Bo...To his credit, Nick Bunker doesn't say that Bostonians went into the Revolution seeking the economic freedom to become an industrial center. <br /><br />Rather, he expresses a longer view that that transition was the way greater Boston would ultimately return to the growth and significance it had enjoyed in the early 1700s (though we never caught up to New York again). <br /><br />With an even longer pespective one might argue the city needed to reinvent itself as a center of finance and high technology after manufacturing businesses moved away. But that doesn't say much about the Revolution. J. L. Bellhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15405157000473731801noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28102666.post-64190895579693147272014-12-23T08:03:35.053-05:002014-12-23T08:03:35.053-05:00Thanks for taking Bunker to task for a statement l...Thanks for taking Bunker to task for a statement like: “The town of Boston needed to reinvent itself as the great industrial city it would eventually become after the War of 1812.” <br />Nobody in Boston in the latter part of the 18th century had any notion of what Boston would become in the 19th century after a war (1812) that those 18th century Bostonians couldn't imagine.<br />It's so tiresome to read statements suggesting that folks in the past intended to achieve their unknowable futures.<br />Rick Subberhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10117679082089176132noreply@blogger.com