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As the American Republic celebrates its 4th of July, I am thinking, as I always do at this time, of LtCol John Connolly of Pennsylvania and Ensign James Connolly, Tory Loyalists, who fought for the Crown & against seditious rebels.
God Save The Queen! 👑💂🇬🇧
God Save The Queen! 👑💂🇬🇧
TBC: the (overwhelmingly Protestant) American rebellion was made possible only because of the enormous military support of the (Catholic) French & Spanish Kingdoms. Otherwise the American founders would have been hanged as seditionists against & traitors to their (Anglican) King.
The Papacy was pro-Habsburg & pro-Hanoverian....it was always anti-French. So, during the American Revolt, the Papacy was neutral but not unhappy with a British North America that protected Catholic missions. The British Crown needed to raise armies from the (RC) Scots & Irish
