The American Revolution Was More Radical Than the Founders Wanted ^28.8%

Jacobin - By Ed Simon - 7/3/2026, 8:50 AM

Anecdotal 42.3% - Appeal to Authority 19.6% - Ambiguity (Equivocation) 17.5%

A popular anecdote maintains that, upon their defeat at Yorktown, Lord Charles Cornwallis’s British fife-and-drum regiment was instructed by General George Washington to perform the Royalist anthem “The World Turned Upside Down.” As appealing as the story is, it’s almost certainly apocryphal. Traditionally, the losing army would have... more