THE REVISION OF HISTORY

Sir, Your correspondent Mr Padraig O Cuanachain, in attacking Kevin Myers's revisionist views, asks readers if writers in America…

Sir, Your correspondent Mr Padraig O Cuanachain, in attacking Kevin Myers's revisionist views, asks readers if writers in America now denounce George Washington as a terrorist and a man who resorted to force and treason to disrupt the British empire?" The following quote from the English political writer James Harrington (1611-1677) may go some way in explaining why the answer is in the negative.

Treason doth never prosper:

What's the reason?

Why, if it prosper,

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None dare call it treason.

Your, etc.,

Sheraton Park,

Foylesprings,

Derry.