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  • … wut? “The personal website of a university”?

    What do you think ‘as much as possible’ meant in an era where they were ruled by one of the belligerents? Literacy is important indeed. The support he got was to protect local interests and not simply blind support for the Crown because the populace did not care to actually quell the American Rebellion, nor rebel themselves.

    edit: “[Guy Carleton] hoped that his policy of conciliation would bear fruit, but only the Canadian clergy (led by Catholic bishop of Québec, Mgr. Jean-Olivier Briand) and the nobility (lords) responded with any enthusiasm to the call by British authorities. The general public remained relatively indifferent, viewing the war as a ‘battle between the English.’