à propos of nothing 😉
Collins realizes that unless both intelligence service officers torturing his people for information and traitorious informants are liquidated, the occupier will know every move by the revolutionaries in advance, and valorous Irishmen will revolt in vain for another nine hundred years.
The OTHER key element was foreigners — Irish-Americans — sending money to Ireland and also, as block-voting Democrats, urging the Democrat President Wilson to NOT allow the British to simply march in with their whole army and massacre the Irish people to suppress the revolution.
So:
–kill traitors
–kill the vile torturers of patriotic prisoners
–get funds and support from powerful foreigners
Text: “I am wearing this mask under protest and duress”
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……Why the failing American Revolution finally did succeed
1) because of a t-i-n-y minority of intrepid men, American, German, Polish and French volunteers,
2) massive financial and military help from the king of France,
3) the French fleet under Admiral de Grasse, in 1781, defeated the vaunted British “Royal Navy” outside of Chesapeake Bay, Virginia,
Plus there was more and more aid (especially cash) from Britain’s maritime rivals, Spain and Holland.
4) finally, popular outrage in America boiled over when Britain began paying Indian savages on the frontier (and this old designation “savages,” which Thomas Jefferson used in the Declaration of Independence, is still the most apt word for them) to scalp and massacre white frontier families, AND PAID THEM BY THE SCALP.
This was the “tipping point” — AFTER FIVE LONG YEARS — which energized even SOME of the do-nothing-but-criticiz-ers — who were the majority of “The People,” then as now — to fully support George Washington and the demand for full independence from Britain.
Some “Mother Country” … to pay Indians to do this.
White men were stripped naked and driven around a pole on a rope as they were stabbed, and body parts were cut or burned off, often by the females, the squaws, who were worse than the males, the braves. Every time one groaned in agony, the Indians chortled in glee. These torture sessions often lasted for three days until the Injuns got bored, and killed the white man, then went on the warpath to another frontier cabin to get another one.
The Marquis de Lafayette was dumbfounded how few Americans initially fought for their own freedom from Britain as he was doing. Lafayette a a true idealist, a foreigner, and an aristocrat, from faraway France. He had been born to immense wealth, and had nothing in common with these American farmers except a love of the idea of a free yet orderly new society.
Jut before the decisive 1781 Battle of Yorktown, George Washington was in despair over the lack of support.
Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, who had sailed 3,000 miles to fight for the freedom of another country, disobeying his king’s direct royal order, confessed to General George Washington in December 1777, after six months stateside, that he was initially shocked by the lack of ardor for the freedom struggle of most Americans.
Generals Washington and Lafayette pass by a sentry standing in wind and snow at Valley Forge in December 1777, when all seemed very hopeless. Within a few weeks, in February 1778, however, after the German Baron von Steuben arrived and began training American troops in German military tactics, and then the Americans began winning battles against England, France signed an alliance with America, Lafayette returned to France to strengthen it in many conversations with his king, Louis XVI — and within three years the war for American freedom was finally won.
It all had a happy ending — Lafayette and Washington celebrate a republic of both order and liberty.
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