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How much truth is there to Hessian officer Johann Heinrich's 1778 statement: "Call it not an American rebellion; it is nothing more or less than an Irish Scotch (Scotch-Irish) Presbyterian rebellion."

by /u/joepyeweed in /r/AskHistorians

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