Independence Lost Quotes

“Britain had, for the first time in the war, lost a colony that had not rebelled.”
― Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

“Continental three-dollar bill, designed by Benjamin Franklin. An eagle fights a crane, with the motto “Exitus in dubio est,” “The outcome is in doubt.”
― Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

“NEW YORKERS CALLED 1777 the “year of the hangman.” John Adams and the rebellion’s other leaders would surely soon hang for treason, from real gallows shaped like the three sevens in “1777.”
― Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution

“Being independent would have been unwelcome to most people in eighteenth-century North America.”
― Kathleen DuVal, Independence Lost: Lives on the Edge of the American Revolution