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➝But really, as a child I learned almost everything I knew about American history and British colonials in particular from watching television and situation comedies. The first time I realized this, I was attending a wedding in London. A friend of the grooms, an English novelist, cornered my American friend and me and asked us to name the British general from the Revolutionary War whom Americans hate the most. He needed one of the American characters in the novel he was working on to mention in passing our most loathed Redcoat foe. ➝Um, maybe Cornwallis? I said, adding that we dont really know the names of any the British except for the American traitor Benedict Arnold. ➝When the novelist asked why that was, my friend answered, Because The Brady Bunch did an episode about him. Peter Brady had to play Benedict Arnold in a school play. —Sarah Vowell in The Wordy Shipmates American Historical Literacy Day of Note: On this date in 1781 Richmond, Virginia was burned by the British navy led by Benedict Arnold.
Posted on: Mon, 05 Jan 2015 16:57:59 +0000

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