Celtic Influence In the American Revolution

The Celts had a very large part in the American Revolution even know they were a small part of the population.

Celtics, people of Scottish, Irish and Welsh descent make up less then 12% of the population of Colonial America in 1775.
But, they were 28 of the 56 men that sign the Declaration of Independence. They are 9 of the first 13 state governors. And they were 99 of every 100 soldiers in General George Washington’s colonial army.

Thomas Jefferson even used the Scottish declaration of independence, "The Declaration of Arbroath" written in 1320 as a blueprint for our Declaration of Independence.

There are a number of great books going into this subject in more detail. There are three of them.

• The Gaelic and Indian Origins of the American Revolution by Krista Cowman
• Born Fighting: How the Scots-Irish Shaped America by James Webb
• Irish Opinion and the American Revolution, 1760–1783 by Vincent Morley

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