Popular thought would have it that every person who was a resident
here was a patriot.
That, is not even close to the truth.
Only about 1/3 of the colonists supported the revolution, the rest were either spineless cowards or traitors that supported the British. The modern world owes it's existence to those brave minority of Americans who fought for freedom. If that small number of people hadn't stood up to the world's superpower at the time then everyone in the world today would probably still be in some sort of servitude.
Washington was generous that he didn't hang the whole lot of them after the war.
