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British Natchez: The American Revolution comes to town
 (Ninth in a series)
On April 19, 1775 fighting at Lexington and Concord, Massachusetts marked the beginning of the American Revolution. Almost a thousand miles away Natchez was remote in more ways than one from the turmoil.
At the time it was just becoming a political entity within the framework of the British province of West Florida. While the Atlantic seaboard colonies were looking to independence from the mother country, for Natchez the mother country was their one lifeline to their continued development and their very existence. Furthermore, many from the Atlantic colonies who remained loyal to Great Britain had actually sought refuge in Natchez to escape intimidation by patriots. However, whether they liked it or not, the turmoil of revolution would spill over into Natchez three years after the fighting began.
Although the propaganda of war usually presents each side in terms of black and white, in reality war is far more gray than it is black and white. The participants on both sides often have more in common than they realize. However in the smoke of battle friends are often hardly distinguishable from enemies while the outcome of battles and wars often tends to result from factors that lie beyond human control.
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