Quote Originally Posted by McMathTX View Post
Due to a resultant oath upon him, he and my 5-times grandfather found themselves at odds over the American Revolution. Again, according to family legend, there was an emotional split between the father and son that never healed.
Dean
I think there might have been a lot of that going on then. There is a small town near my house in NC called Lillington. Near there, 11 Scots were hanged because they refused to join the Patriots. This was due to an oath they took to never again bear arms against England. By staying true to their word, they were seen as traitors.

I spent a year and a half in a British school in the early '90s. This was my freshman and sophomore years of high school. The history we learned was all industrial revolution. This may have been due to the location of the school, being located in the Midlands - between Oxford and Birmingham. I was kind of upset really - in a country with such a long history, I was looking forward to learning stuff that pre-dated the colonial period.