Gavin Newsom

The mythologies grow up around a desire to simplify and control that history.

So, say with the revolution you inherit something that is really just about white men when half the population, women, are deeply involved.

The revolution doesn't happen without the resistance that leads up to it and the nearly decade of resistance.

And women are at the heart of that.

They're the buyers in each homestead.

There are among the two and a half to three million Americans in the time of resistance and at the beginning of the revolution,

Two and a half to three million Americans, 500,000 of whom are free or enslaved black people.

There are within those 13 colonies becoming states, native peoples whose land has already been acquired and they have either assimilated or they're trying to figure out how to coexist.

And on the western border, there are dozens of nations that are as...

as individual and as important on a global stage, economically, diplomatically, militarily, as say France and Prussia are.

And we don't extend to them.

We just say them.

And we also, remember, we don't call ourselves the Eastern Seaboard Congress who appoints George Washington the head of the Eastern Seaboard Army.

They know what's out there.

They've heard of California.

They know what's there.

and they are a continental army and they're planning to get it.

So all of a sudden, you have really interesting dynamics of black Americans deciding to side with the British or fight with the patriots, or Native Americans doing the same things that are sometimes dividing their old alliances and confederacies and destroying them.

There's one woman, a Mohegan woman from I assume Connecticut, North Central Connecticut named Rebecca Tanner who loses five sons

Five sons fighting for the patriot cause.